A Repeat Of Pulwama Terror Attack Averted By Security Forces

PULWAMA (Jammu-Kashmir UT): The security forces have prevented a major terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. Sources said the terrorists had planned a major terror attack on the lines of the Pulwama attack of February 2019, in which 40 CRPF personnel were martyred.

The security forces recovered a car carrying an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. It is suspected that the terrorists were planning to place the explosive-laden car at a strategic location in order to target a convoy of the security forces or hit a defence installation.

Terrorists had placed the IED inside a blue drum which was being transported in the car. The white coloured car was flagged by security forces at a mobile vehicle checkpoint but the driver of the vehicle sped away prompting the security forces to fire few shots at the vehicle which they found abandoned some distance away.

Instead of defusing the explosive, the security forces decided to explode the IED along with the car, the video of which has now been released by the authorities:

IG Police, Vijay Kumar congratulated the security forces for this success. He said in a briefing that Pulwama police received credible information yesterday that a terrorist was moving with an explosive-laden car. He informed that car was carrying about 45 kgs of Ammonium Nitrate explosive.

“A timely action of security forces averted a major tragedy. A suicide attacker jumped two checkpoints before leaving the vehicle behind another late night yesterday at Ayegund area of Rajpora, Pulwama”, he said.

In a joint operation of Army, J&K Police and CRPF, the security forces blasted the vehicle and subsequently averted a major catastrophe that could have arisen out of the vehicle-borne IED blast.

The person driving the car, suspected to be a Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist, managed to flee in the cover of darkness following a short gunfight with the security personnel.

Initial investigation into the matter has revealed that the car, a white colour Santro, was being driven with the number plate of a two-wheeler, registered in the name of a resident of Kathua in Jammu.

from League of India