NEW DELHI, Feb 15: High-grade RDX explosive, weighing about 80 kilogram, was used in a suicide attack on a CRPF bus that killed 44 security personnel in one of the deadliest terror strikes on security forces in the Kashmir valley in three decades, officials said today.
The attack in Pulwama has prompted the CRPF to tweak the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the movement of its convoys in the future, by providing additional security personnel in the buses that transport troops to and from the Kashmir valley.
The officials said a post-blast investigation conducted by security agencies has found that “high-grade RDX” of about 80 kilogram was detonated in the blast that was carried out by a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist after he rammed his explosive laden SUV into the ill-fated bus–HR 49 F 0637–from the left side.
The suicide attack took place at the 272nd milestone on National Highway near Latoomode in Pulwama at about 3:33 pm.
The officials said the scattered remains of the bus, reduced to blackened bare frames after the blast, does not reflect that an improvised explosive device (IED) was used to target it. (PTI)
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