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NIA team to reach Kashmir today
KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 2/15/2019 1:33:47 PM
NEW DELHI, Feb 14: An NIA team with suitable forensic component will leave for Kashmir on Friday morning.
They will be assisting the Jammu and Kashmir Police in forensic evaluation of the crime scene. A national news agency quoting its sources stated that a team of top-level officials will leave for Kashmir tomorrow.
This comes after around 40 CRPF personnel were killed on Thursday when their convoy was targeted in Pulwama district on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway. The convoy comprised 78 buses in which around 2500 personnel were travelling from Jammu to Srinagar.
Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was carried out by a suicide bomber, according to a local news agency.