The Indian Army on Thursday averted a Pulwama-style terror
strike by recovering 52 kg of explosives in Kashmir’s Karewa area, an Indian
Army official said. According to a report in PTI, Karewa is not far from Pulwama,
where a deadly attack killed 40 CRPF personnel last year. The recovery of the explosives was made near the Jammu and Kashmir highway, around 9 KM from
the spot of the Pulwama attack.

“We have averted another Pulwama-type attack,” PTI
quoted an Army official, as saying.

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The officials said the explosives were found in a water tank at Karewa area of Gadikal during a search operation around 8 AM.

“There were 416 packets of explosives with each one of
them weighing 125gm,” said an official, adding another 50 detonators were
recovered in another Syntex tank in the area in subsequent searches.

The explosives are called “Super-90” or S-90 in
short, the official said.

On February 14 last year, a suicide bomber had rammed an
explosive-laden car into a CRPF convoy in Pulwama killing 40 soldiers. It was
one of the deadliest attacks in Kashmir in recent years.

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Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) had taken
responsibility for the attack. Twelve days after the strike, IAF jets pounded a JeM terrorist training camp deep inside Pakistan that had triggered
massive escalation in tension between the two countries.

Last month, the NIA filed a charge sheet in the case,
detailing how the attack was planned and executed by JeM. The NIA named Masood
Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf Asghar and several others in the charge sheet.