Srinagar (NVI): Security forces in Kashmir today averted a major terror attack, which could have been like the one witnessed in February last year on CRPF convoy in Pulwama.
The security forces, including Jammu and Kashmir Police and CRPF, intercepted a car which was laden with 40-45 kgs of explosives and was being driven in Rajpora area of Pulwama district.
Police said a suicide bomber, who was driving the car with fake registration number, jumped two security check posts late last night and left behind the vehicle laden with explosives when forces fired shots to stop him.
A controlled explosion was carried out later to neutralise the bomb.
Inspector General of Police (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar said three terrorists of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen, led by one Adil, who works for both, were planning a suicide attack on security forces on May 11. But the plan failed as the security forces had intensified operations against the terrorists, he said.
If the terrorists had succeeded in their plans, there could have been a major disaster like the one witnessed on February 14 last year when a similar explosive-laden vehicle was driven by a suicide bomber into a convoy of CRPF on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway in Lethpora area of Pulwama district.
40 CRPF personnel were killed in that attack, which provoked India to carry out an airstrike on a major terror camp of Jaish-e-Mohammad in Balakot, deep inside Pakistan, on February 26 and led to the escalation of military tensions between the two countries.
