New Delhi | Former Army chief Bikram Singh on Friday responding to the attack on CRPF battalion in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama said that the attack depicts the rise of radicalisation level of the local Kashmiri youth.
Speaking to News agency ANI, Bikram Singh said,” A local boy been radicalised and undertaking a ‘fidayeen’ action on a moving convoy, shows the emboldened instance of local terrorists, also the fact that radicalisation levels have gone up.” Singh further said that the intensity of the attack using IED shows the change in the tactics of the terrorist. He said,” IED has been used after a long time, IEDs were used in the past, in 2001-2002 when I was there, this was a normal practice of terrorists, then they resorted to firing from distance.”
Former Army Chief, Bikram Singh on #PulwamaTerrorAttack: It shows change in tactics of terrorists. IED has been used after a long time, IEDs were used in the past, in 2001-2002 when I was there, this was a normal practice of terrorists, then they resorted to firing from distance. pic.twitter.com/07o4dBuG12
— ANI (@ANI) February 15, 2019
At least 44 CRPF personnel were killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday when a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist identified as Adil Ahmed rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the bus they were travelling in. More than 2,500 Central Reserve Police Force personnel, many of them returning from leave to rejoin duty in the Valley, were travelling in the convoy of 78 vehicles when they were ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu highway at Latoomode in Awantipora.
This was the first suicide car bomb strike in Kashmir since the 2001 attack on the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly that left 41 persons, including three suicide attackers, dead.
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