Lethpora attack: Death toll mounts to 42

Nissar Shaheen;

The death toll in Lethpora Awantipora militant attack has mounted to 42. A top police officer told KNO that the death toll has increased to 42

Earlier, the officials had told that 42 CRPF men were killed while 2 were injured in a car bomb attack along Srinagar-Jammu highway in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. They had said a bus of CRPF they were travelling in was also damaged.

They said the militants rammed the car into the CRPF bus triggered off an intensive blast, thus leaving 42 CRPF men dead and 2 others injured.

The others seriously wounded were shifted to hospital for medical attention, they had said, adding that the several among the injured CRPF men later succumbed to their injuries,