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Timely intervention by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir have averted a Pulwama type audacious attack by terrorists. According to media reports by news agencies coming in, a vehicle-borne IED blast was averted as the alert security forces detected a car fitted with explosives in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir police said. The improvised explosive device (IED) was safely defused.
“A major incident of a vehicle borne #IED blast is averted by the timely input and action by #Pulwama Police, CRPF and Army,” the Kashmir zone police wrote on its Twitter handle.
According to ANI report, Pulwama Police got credible information last night that a terrorist was moving with an explosive-laden car. They took out various parties of police & security forces (SFs) and covered all possible routes keeping themselves and security forces away from road at safer location
According to sources, a white coloured santro car was flagged by security forces at a mobile vehicle check point but the driver sped away.
security forces fired few shots at the santro car, which they found abandoned some distance away. During checking, an IED was found fitted in the vehicle, which was later defused.
J&K: Pulwama Police got credible information last night that a terrorist was moving with an explosive-laden car. They took out various parties of police & security forces (SFs) and covered all possible routes keeping themselves and security forces away from road at safer location pic.twitter.com/OLKeYRVB1G
— ANI (@ANI) May 28, 2020
They said the security forces fired few shots at the car, which they found abandoned some distance away. During checking, an IED was found fitted in the vehicle, which was later defused, the sources said.
The incident brought back the bitter memories of 14 February 2019, when a convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel on the Jammu Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethpora (near Awantipora) in the Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir. The attack resulted in the deaths of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)personnel and the attacker.
