{"id":309337,"date":"2019-02-14T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T12:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309337"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:12:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:12:48","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-40-crpf-men-killed-in-ied-blast-in-pulwama-jem-claims-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-40-crpf-men-killed-in-ied-blast-in-pulwama-jem-claims-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: 40 CRPF men killed in IED blast in Pulwama, JeM claims responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-309338 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/blast-1-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/blast-1-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/blast-1-302x420.jpg 302w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/blast-1.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)\u00a0personnel\u00a0lost their lives and several others injured on Thursday after\u00a0terrorists targeted a convoy with a powerful\u00a0explosive\u00a0at Awantipora in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama district.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The injured were rushed to the army base hospital in Srinagar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reports said, the terrorists triggered the blast while the CRPF personnel were plying through the Srinagar-Jammu highway. There were also reports of firing upon the vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former chief minister Omar Abdullah condemned the attack on CRPF soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTerrible news coming from the valley. A number of CRPF soldiers are reported to have been killed &amp; injured in an IED blast. I condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms. My prayers for the injured &amp; condolences to the families of the bereaved,\u201d Abdullah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PDP President Mehbooba Mufti also took to her twitter account and tweeted, \u201c Disturbing news coming in from #awantipura . Twelve of our security personnel have been martyred and several have been injured. No words are enough to condemn the gruesome terror attack. How many more lives will be snuffed out before this madness ends?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)\u00a0personnel\u00a0lost their lives and several others injured on Thursday after\u00a0terrorists targeted a convoy with a powerful\u00a0explosive\u00a0at Awantipora in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama district.\u00a0\u00a0 The injured were rushed to the army base hospital in Srinagar. Reports said, the terrorists triggered the blast while the CRPF personnel were plying through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":309338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1176,1913,1141,2270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309337"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309353,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309337\/revisions\/309353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}