Key facts
- Date
- 14 February 2019 , 15:15 IST ( UTC+05:30 )
- Target
- Central Reserve Police Force personnel
- Attack type
- Suicide attack , car bombing
- Deaths
- 40 (+1 suicide bomber)
- Perpetrators
- Mastermind is Mohammad Ismal Alvi he also known as Saifullah, Adnan or Lamboo † , Jaish-e-Mohammed , Lashkar-e-Taiba
- Assailants
- Adil Ahmad Dar
- Accused
- 19 (out of which 7 killed, 7 arrested)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- suicide attack
- Country
- India
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Location
- Lethapora
- Number of deaths
- 41
- Number of injured
- 35
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- point in time
- 2019-02-14
- perpetrator
- Jaish-e-Mohammed
- number of perpetrators
- 1
- has effect
- 2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The 2019 Pulwama attack occurred on 14 February 2019, when a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian security personnel on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethapora in the Pulwama district of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. The attack killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel as well as the perpetrator — Adil Ahmad Dar— who was a local Kashmiri youth from the Pulwama district. The responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist group, Jaish-e-Mohammed. India blamed neighbouring Pakistan for the attack, while the latter condemned the attack and denied having any connections to it. The attack dealt a severe blow to India–Pakistan relations, consequently resulting in the 2019 India–Pakistan military standoff. Subsequently, Indian investigations identified 19 accused. By August 2021, the main accused along with six others had been killed, and seven had been arrested.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2019 Pulwama attack” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.