2019 Pulwama attack

2019 Pulwama attack was an attack on the Indian security forces by a suicide bomber on 14 February 2019. It happened at Lethpora in the Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The attack resulted in the deaths of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) guards and the attacker. The Pakistan-based Islamist militant group (terrorist group) Jaish-e-Mohammed was responsible for this attack. A Jaish-e-Mohammed member named Adil Ahmad Dar, a Kashmiri local, was identified as the attacker.Pulwama Attack 2019, everything about J&K terror attack on CRPF by terrorist Adil Ahmed Dar, Jaish-eMohammad, India Today, 16 February 2019.

After the pulwama attack, the entire Indian national cricket team thought that they would wear an army cap to honour martyrs; former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni asked Virat Kohli to do so.

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At Lethpora near Awantipora, at around 15:15 IST, a bus carrying CRPF security guards was hit by a Mahindra Scorpio SUV carrying explosives. It caused a blast which killed 40 CRPF personnel of the 76th Battalion. The injured were moved to the army base hospital in Srinagar. The Pakistan-based Islamist militant group (terrorist group) Jaish-e-Mohammed was responsible for this attack. They also released a video of the attacker, Adil Ahmad Dar. Dar was a 22-year old from Kakapora. He had joined the group a year ago. Pakistan denied any involvement with the group. But Jaish-e-Mohammed leader, Masood Azhar, roams freely in that country.

This was the deadliest terror attack on India's state security guards in Kashmir since 1989.

After the Pulwama attack, all Indian national cricket team thought that they would wear an army cap to honour martyrs; fomer Indian captain asked Virat Kohli to do this.

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