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| Whose vehicle suicide attacker used? | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Feb 18: The investigating agencies are trying to find out whose vehicle the suicide attacker used and who helped him to reach that spot despite large presence of security forces. It has been learnt that some locals might have helped the suicide attacker to reach the spot.
A source in police department said that it was not clear how Adil managed to get hold of the RDX or any other explosive used, and who helped him. "Most probably some locals might have supported him to carry out the attack," the source said. "It is not known about the size of RDX or any other explosive and the vehicle used in the attack."
"The security agencies are making efforts to find out who the owner of the vehicle is and whether it was a stolen one. The NIA has collected samples of blood strains and remnants of the vehicle," the source said.
A suicide bomber identified as Adil Ahmad Dar on Thursday rammed a CRPF bus with his vehicle at Lethpora Pulwama. As per initial reports he was driving Scorpio carrying 350 kg of explosives. Following which the security agencies have said that he was driving a vehicle packed with over 100 kg of explosives on the wrong side of the road and hit the bus.
Now the conflicting versions are emerging that he was driving Sedan, or Swift, carrying 60 kg of RDX. The NIA team along with explosive and forensic experts has collected samples from the site. The suicide bomber in Thursday's deadly attack, in which more than 40 CRPF jawans were killed, drove up next to a massive security convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar highway.
The bus was blown to bits and reduced to mangled steel parts. There were human remains scattered across a 100 metre stretch of the highway. The powerful explosion, which reduced the bus to a mangled heap of iron, was heard many kilometres away, including in some parts of Srinagar adjoining Pulwama district.
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 was ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu highway around 3.15 pm on Thursday. Usually, about 1,000 personnel are part of a convoy. |
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