Pulwama: The armed forces in Kashmir have said that they prevented a massive car bomb attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama on Wednesday night after they stopped a vehicle carrying over 20 kg of improvised explosive device (IED).
They say that the plan had chilling similarities with last year’s attack in Pulwama, when over 40 soldiers were killed as a suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a CRPF convoy.
Based on intelligence inputs, a white Hyundai Santro car with a fake registration number was signalled to stop at a check point on Wednesday night, as per the armed forces.
“The security forces opened fire. The driver managed to escape, leaving behind the car laden with IED,” Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar said. “We got intelligence about a possible attack. We were looking for a vehicle with IED since yesterday,” he added.
The improvised explosive device (IED) planted by suspected militants was defused by the forces on Thursday, reports said.
The IED-laden car carried a fake number plate allotted to a motorbike registered in the name of a BSF officer, Sahil Kumar, at regional transport office in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir to mislead the forces, said officers.
Officials said that a joint team of the security forces recovered the IED after searching the vehicle.
“We had received inputs about movement of the vehicle carrying an IED 4-5 days ago,” the official said.
He said bomb disposal squad teams were called to the spot which defused it.
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