Army averts Pulwama-type attack in J&K, 52 kg explosives found

A major Pulwama-type attack was averted in Jammu & Kashmir on Thursday when the Army discovered 52 kg of explosives very close to the highway. This location is also near the site of last year’s terrorist strike in which over 40 soldiers were killed.

“We have averted another Pulwama-type attack,” said an Army official. According to an Army statement, a joint search operation at 8 am on Thursday at “the Karewa area of Gadikal” revealed a Syntex tank that was buried in an orchard. Around 52 kg of explosives were found in that water tank. There were 416 packets of explosives with 125 gm in each.

The explosives are called “Super-90” or S-90 in short, the official said. As per Army officials, the location where the explosives were recovered was about 9 km from the spot of the Pulwama attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed in February 14 2019.

Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) had taken responsibility for the dastardly Pulwama attack. Twelve days after the strike, in which over 40 soldiers were killed after a suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into a security convoy, India’s war- planes pounded a JeM train- ing camp in Balakot, deep inside Pakistan.

Last month, the NIA filed a 13,500-page chargesheet in the case, detailing how the attack was planned and executed by JeM. The NIA named Masood Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf Asghar and several others in the chargesheet. The chargesheet also said the Jaish had planned another such attack and even had suicide bombers ready but were thwarted by India’s Balakot strikes.

With agency inputs