Jammu and Kashmir: A major terrorist attack took place on Saturday evening in Sopore of Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir. Three paramilitary personnel have been killed in this ambush on the convoy. The attack was carried out on a joint team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and policemen. This is the second terrorist attack from last night to today. At the moment, further detailed information on this is awaited.


#UPDATE Two jawans have lost their lives & another injured in a terrorist attack in Sopore, Baramulla in Jammu & Kashmir. https://t.co/u8vrWA6hm5 — ANI (@ANI) April 18, 2020 Advertisement

A terrorist attack on CRPF detachment in Pulwama a day ago

A day earlier, on Friday, a CRPF detachment was attacked in the Neva area of ​​Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir. In this attack, a soldier was injured due to being shot. Regarding the attack, the CRPF said that the militants opened fire on the personnel of the B / 183 battalion of CRPF in the Neva. A jawan was shot in the attack. The CRPF said that the search operation was launched after sealing the area after the attack.

Here, two militants who killed a special police officer (SPO) and critically injured one of their accomplices were killed in an encounter on Friday in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. The Inspector-General of Police of Jammu gave this information. Officials said the two militants were killed in a shootout between the security forces and the militants.

Two more people arrested in Pulwama terror attack case

In the Pulwama attack case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested two more persons, one of whom had purchased chemicals online to manufacture IEDs. Last year, 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed in this terrorist attack in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. On February 14, 2019, a suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into a CRPF convoy in Pulwama.

The NIA arrested Wazir-ul-Islam (19) of the Bagh-e-Mehtab area of ​​Srinagar and Mohammad Abbas Rather (32) of Hakaripura village in Pulwama. With this, the number of persons arrested in this case has now increased to five. Earlier, a father-daughter and a close associate of a suicide bomber were arrested in two other operations. In an initial inquiry, Islam revealed that on the instructions of Jaish-e-Mohammed Pakistani terrorists, he used his Amazon online shopping account to buy chemicals, batteries and other materials to produce IEDs, an official said.