2019 Pulwama attack

2019 Pulwama attack was an attack on the Indian security forces by a suicide bomber on 14 February 2019. It happened at Lethpora in the Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The attack resulted in the deaths of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) guards and the attacker. The Pakistan-based Islamist militant group (terrorist group) Jaish-e-Mohammed was responsible for this attack. A Jaish-e-Mohammed member named Adil Ahmad Dar, a Kashmiri local, was identified as the attacker.

After the pulwama attack, the entire Indian national cricket team thought that they would wear an army cap to honour martyrs; former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni asked Virat Kohli to do so.

Attack

Personnel killed
State Number Names
Uttar Pradesh 12 Cst. Pradeep Kumar
HC Awadhesh Kumar Yadav
HC Ram Vakeel Mathur
Cst. Mahesh Kumar Meena
Cst. Vijay Kumar Mourya
Cst. Pankaj Kumar Tripathi
Cst. Ramesh Yadav
Cst. Shyam Babu
Cst. Kaushal Kumar Rawat
Cst. Pradeep Singh
Cst. Ajit Kumar Azad
Cst. Amit Kumar
Rajasthan 5 Cst. Jeet Ram
Cst. Rohitash Lamba
HC Narayan Lal Gurjar
HC Hemraj Meena
Cst. Bhagirathi Singh
Punjab 4 Cst. Kulwinder Singh
Cst. Maninder Singh Attri
HC Jaimal Singh
Cst. Sukhjinder Singh
Odisha 2 Cst. Manoj Kumar Behera
HC Prasanna Kumar Sahoo
Uttarkhand 2 ASI Mohan Lal
Cst. Virendra Singh Rana
Bihar 2 Cst. Ratan Kumar Thakur
HC Sanjay Kumar Sinha
Maharashtra 2 HC Sanjay Bhikamsingh Dixit Rajput
Cst. Nitin Shivaji Rathod
West Bengal 2 HC Bablu Santra
Cst. Sudip Biswas
Tamil Nadu 2 Cst. G. Subramanian
Cst. C. Sivachandran
Assam 1 HC Maneswar Basumatary
Karnataka 1 Cst. H. Guru
Jammu and Kashmir 1 HC Ahmed Naseer
Himachal Pradesh 1 Cst. Tilak Raj
Kerala 1 Cst. Vazhakkandiyil (V. V.) Vasantha Kumar
Jharkhand 1 HC Vijay Soreng
Madhya Pradesh 1 Cst. Lal Ashwini Kumar Kachhi
Total 40

At Lethpora near Awantipora, at around 15:15 IST, a bus carrying CRPF security guards was hit by a Mahindra Scorpio SUV carrying explosives. It caused a blast which killed 40 CRPF personnel of the 76th Battalion. The injured were moved to the army base hospital in Srinagar. The Pakistan-based Islamist militant group (terrorist group) Jaish-e-Mohammed was responsible for this attack. They also released a video of the attacker, Adil Ahmad Dar. Dar was a 22-year old from Kakapora. He had joined the group a year ago. Pakistan denied any involvement with the group. But Jaish-e-Mohammed leader, Masood Azhar, roams freely in that country.

This was the deadliest terror attack on India's state security guards in Kashmir since 1989.

After the Pulwama attack, all Indian national cricket team thought that they would wear an army cap to honour martyrs; fomer Indian captain asked Virat Kohli to do this.

References

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