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Pulwama terror attack: Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh pay homage to martyred CRPF personnel

“I bow down to the brave martyrs who lost their lives in the gruesome Pulwama attack on this day in 2019. India will never forget their exceptional courage and supreme sacrifice,” said Amit Shah.

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New Delhi, First Published Feb 14, 2021, 10:19 AM IST

New Delhi: India observes the second anniversary of the deadly terror attack in which as many as 40 soldiers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) lost their lives in a ghastly strike by a suicide bomber in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama on February 14 exactly two years ago.

Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh paid homage to the CRPF personnel who lost their lives in the 2019 Pulwama terror attack.

“I bow down to the brave martyrs who lost their lives in the gruesome Pulwama attack on this day in 2019. India will never forget their exceptional courage and supreme sacrifice,” said Amit Shah.

Singh said, “India will never forget their service to the nation and their supreme sacrifice.”

The 22-year-old suicide bomber Adil Ahmad Dar drove a Maruti Eeco through one of the alleyways onto the highway at around 3pm and rammed the explosive-laden car into a bus carrying the CRPF troopers. Within seconds of the crash, the bus was reduced to a mangled heap of metal and 40 troopers were blown up. It was the bloodiest attack the Valley had seen in its 30-year-old insurgency period.

Around 78 buses carrying 2,500 personnel was moving from Jammu towards Srinagar.

Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed took responsibility for the Pulwama terror attack despite repeated denials from Pakistan.

Provoking grief and anger in the same pulse, the attack led India to carry out strikes in Pakistan's Balakot 12 days after February 14. 

A memorial with names of all 40 jawans killed in the Pulwama attack was inaugurated on February 14, 2020 at CRPF's Training Centre at Lethpora camp in Pulwama. The memorial is inscribed with the names of all the 40 troopers along with their photographs and the motto of the CRPF -- "Seva and Nishtha" (Service and Loyalty).

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