Srinagar: Over 30 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed and 14 others were injured in a fidayeen attack by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant outfit at Awantipora in south Kashmir district of Pulwama on Srinagar-Jammu national highway on Thursday afternoon.
Militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Official sources told UNI that militants rammed an IED-laden vehicle into a vehicle carrying CRPF at Goripora, Awantipora on Thursday afternoon.
They said 12 CRPF personnel were killed on the spot and 32 others were wounded after the vehicle was blown up. “The injured were immediately taken to Army’s 92 base hospital,” they said, adding 18 more personnel succumbed at the hospital.
They said that the death toll could increase as the condition of some other jawans in critical. “Security forces have been rushed to the spot and the area has been cordoned off,” they added.
They said the ‘Fidayeen’ has been identified as Adil Ahmad, a resident of Kakapora in Pulwama.
