Police identified the terrorist as Adil Ahmad from Kakapora in Pulwama. He joined the Jaish-Mohammed in 2018, they said.
Srinagar:
At least 20 CRPF personnel were killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Thursday when a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the bus they were travelling in, officials said.
The terror group has claimed responsibility for the incident, they said.
Police said the militants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) targeting a CRPF bus in Lethpora area, about 30 km from here, around 3.15 p.m.
"The IED had been planted inside a moving car on the highway and was detonated when the car came close to the CRPF bus which was part of a CRPF convoy coming to Srinagar from Jammu," the officer said.
All the injured have been shifted to the Army's Base Hospital in Srinagar.
CRPF DG RR Bhatnagar on #Pulwama attack: Senior officers at the spot, the investigation is underway. Injured being taken care of. There were 2500 personnel in the convoy (file pic) pic.twitter.com/hklbZPk9z2
— ANI (@ANI) February 14, 2019
The casualties are likely to go up.
Several people were injured in the terror attack, which reduced the bus to a mangled heap of iron. Body parts could be strewn around the area.
Zulfiqar Hassan, IG CRPF(Operations) on Pulwama blast: J&K Police has taken up the investigation. The injured shifted to hospital. Post-blast analysis being done at the spot pic.twitter.com/BsOi2nJhfh
— ANI (@ANI) February 14, 2019
The vehicle was blown up on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Awantipora area of the district, a police official said.
In a statement to a local news agency GNS, a caller claiming to be a spokesman of JeM said it was a 'fidayeen' (suicide) attack by the outfit.