On February 14, 2019, a powerful explosion rocked a convoy of CRPF personnel, many of them returning from leave to rejoin duty in the Jammu and Kashmir, on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway at Latoomode in Pulwama district. The powerful explosion led to the martyrdom of 40 soldiers. The explosion was triggered by a suicide bomber carrying explosives in a car and the bomber targeted a CRPF convoy in order to inflict maximum damage.
India observes the second anniversary of the cowardly terror attack today and remembers the sacrifice of the brave men who attained martyrdom on February 14, 2020.
Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) claimed responsibility for the dastardly attack and police identified the suicide bomber as 22-year-old Adil Ahmad Dar who officials said joined the Jaish in 2018. Dar drove a Maruti Eeco through one of the alleyways onto the highway and rammed it into the CRPF convoy. The car was packed with IED and the impact of explosion was so…