Thousands of people across nation pay homage to CRPF jawans killed in Pulwama terror attack

Members of Yuvadhara Kottooli pay homage to martyred CRPF jawans in Kozhikode on Friday. (TP Sooraj | EPS)

People in Mandya take out candle light march condemning attack on CRPF soldiers. (Udayshankar S | EPS)

Members of United Nurses Association from Kozhikode pay homage to CRPF jawans martyred in Pulwama terror attack. (TP Sooraj | EPS)

At least 40 CRPF personnel were killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Thursday when a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the bus they were travelling in, one of the worst terror strikes in the state in recent years. (Pushkar V | EPS)

More than 2,500 Central Reserve Police Force personnel, many of them returning from leave to rejoin duty in the Valley, were travelling in the convoy of 78 vehicles when they were ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu highway at Latoomode in Awantipora. (Pushkar V | EPS)

Police said the terrorist driving the suicide vehicle was Adil Ahmad from Kakapora in Pulwama who joined the JeM in 2018. (Pushkar V | EPS)

Over 20 people were injured in the terror attack, which reduced the bus to a mangled heap of iron. (Pushkar V | EPS)

The number of personnel travelling back to the Valley was high as there was no movement on the highway for the last two to three days because of bad weather and other administrative reasons. (Pushkar V | EPS)

In the attack on the Uri military base in September 2016, JeM militants killed 18 Army jawans and injured dozens of others. (Pushkar V | EPS)