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Attack on CRPF personnel convoy
Why is it in news?
- At least 37 CRPF personnel were killed when their convoy were travelling on the Srinagar-Jammu highway.
- It was attacked by a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) suicide bomber, who rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into one of the convoy’s buses near Awantipora.
- It was the deadliest attack in terms of casualties in the last three decades of militancy in the State.
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- Convoy: About 2,500 personnel were travelling to the Valley at the time of the attack. Gunshots followed the blast, according to locals. The personnel under attack belonged to 92, 17 and 54 Battalions of the CRPF.
- Resurgent Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militant outfit:(1) Outfit is jockeying for power among militant groups to take centre stage(2) The Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militant outfit, with a cadre strength of zero in 2015 and six in 2016, is regrouping in Kashmir again and has carried more attacks on the security forces than the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM)outfits in the past two months.
Source
The Hindu