JeM, Hizbul responsible for failed IED attack : Kashmir police

  • Kashmir police on Thursday revealed that  Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) had the main role in planning the car bomb attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama.
  • Vijay Kumar, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir said that Hizbul Mujahideen was also involved in terror plan.
  • Kumar stated that Pulwama police was regularly receiving information that Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen were together planning this attack. 
  • In February last year, 40 CRPF personnel were killed in a JeM- planned terror attack in South Kashmir's Pulwama district.
  •  The incident took place when a CRPF convoy, consisting of around 2,500 personnel, was attacked by a suicide bomber who rammed a car laden with explosives into one of the buses on the Jammu-Srinagar highway.
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