New Delhi: In a major success for security forces, terror attack on the lines of Pulwama attack was averted as the Army jawans today recovered 52 kg of explosives in Karewa area of Gadikal in Kashmir.
“We have averted another Pulwama-type attack,” said an Army official.
The Pulwama-type terror plot was busted after the jawans in a search operation found a Syntex tank that was buried in an orchard.
“Around 52 kilograms of explosives were found in that water tank. There were 416 packets of explosives with 125 gm in each,” according to an Army statement.
Another water tank with 50 detonators was also recovered. The explosives are called “Super-90” or S-90 in short, officials said.
Karewa is very close to the national highway and about 9km from the February 2019 attack site in Pulwama in which over 40 CRPF soldiers had lost their lives.
In February 2019, a suicide bomber had rammed his car laden with explosives into the convoy of armed jawans, resulting in death of 50 CRPF personnel.
Recently, the NIA it its charge-sheet had blamed Pak-based terrorist Masood Azhar and his brother Rauf Asghar as the key conspirators behind the Pulwama attack.
However, this is not just the first instance of security forces busting the Pulwama type terror plot by the terrorists.
On May 28, 2020, forces intercepted car with IED, got it exploded
On May 28 this year, the security forces recovered a car carrying an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Pulwama district of Kashmir. Reports said that the terrorists were planning to place the explosive-laden car at a strategic location in order to smash a convoy of the security forces or hit a defence installation.
Terrorists had placed the IED inside a blue drum which was being transported in the car. The security forces, after locating it, decided to explode the IED along with the car rather than defuse it.
#WATCH J&K: In-situ explosion of the vehicle, which was carrying IED, by Police in Pulwama.
Major incident of vehicle-borne IED explosion was averted by Police, CRPF & Army after Pulwama Police got credible info last night that a terrorist was moving with an explosive-laden car pic.twitter.com/UnUHSYB07C
— ANI (@ANI) May 28, 2020
