Pulwama terror attack: Leaders condole CRPF personnel's death

New Delhi: Leaders across the nation condemned the Pulwama terror attack which killed over 20 CRPF troopers on Thursday.

• PM Modi condemned the attack calling it a "dastardly attack"
• Congress president Rahul Gandhi condoled the killing of CRPF personnel in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday and said it had left him "deeply disturbed
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• Minister of State for External Affairs, Vijay Kumar Singh reacted on the Pulwama attack

More than twenty CRPF troopers were killed on Thursday when militants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) and opened fire at their vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.

In what is being described as one of the biggest loss to the security forces in one single incident, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) bus was ambushed in Lethpora town, about 30 km from Srinagar.

The incident took place when some 2,547 CRPF personnel were coming in a convoy of 78 vehicles from the transit camp in Jammu and headed to Srinagar.