In the deadliest attack on Indian security forces in three years, eight CRPF personnel were killed and 21 others critically wounded when Militants rained bullets on a bus carrying them in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district of Indian Administered Kashmir. The LeT Militants sprayed a bus carrying the personnel of 161 battalion of CRPF with bullets at Frestbal, 14 KMs from here, officials said.
The CRPF’s Road Opening Party (ROP) engaged the Militants and killed two of them. According come accounts, two more militants were involved in the attack but there was no official confirmation. The area has been sealed and message flashed about the possibility of two terrorists having fled the spot in a car towards Srinagar. The injured were rushed to the hospital where doctors declared five of them having been brought dead, while the condition of four of the 21 personnel was stated to be critical. After the encounter was over, bodies of three more CRPF personnel were found on the back seats of the bus raising the death toll to eight.