Srinagar: An IED blast planted in a car that was rammed into a CRPF bus resulted in the killing of 23 CRPF men Thursday afternoon near Letpora on Srinagar-Jammu highway .
Early reports had said that they that 13 CRPF men were killed while 44 were injured in a car bomb attack on Srinagar-Jammu highway in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. They had said a bus of CRPF they were travelling in was also damaged.
Officials said the militants rammed the car into the CRPF bus triggered off an intensive blast, thus leaving 13 CRPF men dead and 44 others injured.
The others seriously injure were shifted to hospital for medical attention, they had said, adding that the several among the injured CRPF men later succumbed to their injuries, taking the death toll in attack to 26.
