Pulwama terror attack: List of CRPF jawans killed in IED blast

As many as 42 CRPF personnel were killed and several others were injured in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Thursday when a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the bus the jawans were travelling in, officials said. After Uri, this is considered to be one of the worst terror strikes in Jammu and Kashmir in recent years. The JeM, the Pakistani based terror group has claimed responsibility for the gruesome attack that took place around 03:30 pm at Lethpora village about 30 km away from Jammu and Kashmir's capital city Srinagar.

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 over 70 vehicles when they were ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu highway at Latoomode in Awantipora.

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Here is the list of CRPF personnel who were killed in Pulwama attack earlier today:

1. Jaimal Singh

2. Naseer Ahamad

3. Sukhvinder Singh

4. Rohitash Lamba

5. Tilak Raj

6. Vijay Soreng

7. Nitin Shivaji Rathod

8. Bhagirathi Singh

9. Virendra Singh

10. Awadhesh Kumar Yadav

11. Ratan Kumar Thakur

12. Pankaj Kumar Tripathi

13. Jeet Ram

14. Amit Kumar

15. Vijay Kumar Mourya

16. Sanjay Kumar Sinha

17. Mohan Lal

18. Maneswar Basumatari

19. Kulwinder Singh

20. Vasantha Kumar VV

21. Ram Vakeel

22. Subramanian G

23. GD Guru H

24. Narayan Lal Gurjar

25. Hemraj Meena

26. PK Sahoo

27. Bablu Santra

28. Maninder Singh Attri

29. Ashvni Kumar Kaochi

30. Ajit Kumar Azad

31. Sanjay Rajput

32. Ramesh Yadav

33. Koushal Kumar Rawat

34. Pradeep Singh

35. Shyam Babu

36. Pradeep Kumar

37. Mahesh Kumar

38. Manoj Kumar Behra

Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industries has announced a peaceful Jammu Bandh tomorrow (February 15) as a protest against the killing of CRPF Jawans in Pulwama.