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A CRPF official on the Awantipora attack says there were 70 vehicles in the convoy and one of the vehicles came under attack. The convoy was on its way from Jammu to Srinagar. ANI reports that the Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the IED attack, in a text message to Kashmiri News Agency GNS.
At least 42 CRPF personnel were killed in Pulwama district on Thursday when a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the bus they were travelling in, officials said.
Police identified the militant as Adil Ahmad Dar from Kakapora in Pulwama. He joined the Jaish-Mohammed in 2018, they said. The casualties are likely to go up. Several people were injured in the attack, which reduced the bus to a mangled heap of iron.
Body parts could be strewn around the area. The vehicle was blown up on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Awantipora area of the district, a police official said.
2,500 personnel were in the convoy and some shots were also fired at the convoy, DG, CRPF, RR Bhatnagar, said.
Jaish-e-Mohammad militant Adil Ahmad Dar, the suicide bomber who carried out the attack on a CRPF convoy on Thursday. (Screengrab: Twitter)
