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PULWAMA ATTACK

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On 14 February 2019, a convoy of 78 vehicles transporting more than 2,500  Central Reserve Police Force  (CRPF) [a]  personnel from  Jammu  to  Srinagar  was travelling on  National Highway 44 . The convoy had left Jammu around 03:30  IST  and was carrying a large number of personnel due to the highway having been shut down for two days prior. The convoy was scheduled to reach its destination before sunset. [2] At  Lethpora  near  Awantipora , around 15:15 IST, [22]  a bus carrying security personnel was rammed by a car carrying explosives. It caused a blast which killed 40 CRPF personnel of the 76th Battalion and injured many others. The injured were moved to the army base hospital in Srinagar. [1] Pakistan-based militant group  Jaish-e-Mohammed  claimed responsibility for the attack. They also released a video of the assailant Adil Ahmad Dar, a 22-year old from  Kakapora  who had joined the...
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URI SURGICAL STRIKE

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At around 5:30 a.m. on 18 September, four militants attacked an  Indian Army  brigade headquarters in  Uri , near the  Line of Control  in a pre-dawn ambush. They were said to have lobbed 17 grenades in three minutes. As a rear administrative base camp with tents caught fire, 17 army personnel were killed during the attack. An additional 19-30 soldiers were reported to have been injured. A gun battle ensued lasting six hours, during which all the four militants were killed. [4] [6] [22] [23] [24]  Combing operations continued to flush out additional terrorists thought to be alive. [10] Most of the soldiers killed were from the 10th battalion,  Dogra Regiment  (10 Dogra) and 6th battalion,  Bihar Regiment  (6 Bihar). [24]  One of the injured soldiers succumbed to his injuries on 19 September at RR Hospital in  New Delhi , followed by another soldier on 24 September, bringing the death toll to 19. [2] [3] [25] The ca...
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