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IED blast in Pulwama’s Tral, civilian injured

Soon After The Incident Police Team Reached The Spot And An Investigation Is Underway

News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Fayiq Wani | Updated on: 02 Mar 2019, 12:26:25 PM
A civilian was injured on Saturday in an IED blast set by terrorists in Tral area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district

New Delhi:

A civilian was injured on Saturday in an IED blast set by terrorists in Tral area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The incident took place at around 3 am in Amlar area, according to reports. Soon after the incident Police team reached the spot and an investigation is underway. The area has been cordoned off. IED was laid to target security forces patrol vehicles but seems to have exploded prematurely.


(Visual from the IED blast site)

At least 42 CRPF personnel were killed last month in one of the deadliest terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir when a Jaish suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 80 kg of explosives into their bus in Pulwama district that also left many critically wounded. More than 2,500 Central Reserve Police Force personnel, many of them returning from leave to rejoin duty in the Valley, were travelling in the convoy of 78 vehicles when they were ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu highway at Latoomode in Awantipora in south Kashmir.

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First Published : 02 Mar 2019, 12:15:20 PM

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