45 CRPF Men Killed, 38 Injured In Deadliest Attack On Forces In JK
Srinagar: In the deadliest attack on forces in Jammu and Kashmir, forty-five paramilitary CRPF men were killed while 38 others were injured in a car bombing Lethpora area along the Srinagar-Jammu highway in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday afternoon.
An official of the CRPF told GNS that a “suicide car bomber” rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the bus near Lethpora at around 03:15 pm, resulting into an intensive blast in which 45 paramilitary personnel were killed.
“While a total of 44 CRPF men belonging to different battalions were travelling in one vehicle, 39 others were travelling in another one,” the CRPF official said. He said that the CRPF men belonged to 92, 17, 54, 82, 61, 21, 98, 118, 76, 45, 3 and 176 battalions. He said while none from the bus carrying 44 CRPF men survived, one of the injured among those travelling in another bus succumbed. The other injured are being treated at the army hospital at Badamibagh. Sources said that intensity of the blast was such that its sound was heard around 10 kilometers radially.
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