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The worst terror strike till date on security personnel was considered to be the Uri attack in September 2016. But Thursday's attack at Awantipora in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, where at least 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed and several were injured after terrorists targeted a convoy with a powerful explosive is even worse.
According to television reports, terrorists triggered the terror attack when the convoy of more than 70 CRPF vehicles were plying through the Srinagar-Jammu highway. Terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Here's a timeline of all the terror attacks that took place on the Indian Army, CRPF and other forces in Jammu and Kashmir since the 1999 Badami Bagh attack.
# February 7, 2018: Two policemen were killed at Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital after militants opened fire on a police team accompanying detainees from the Central Jail to the hospital for a medical check-up. A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander, Naveed Jat escaped from police custody during the attack.
# January 19, 2018: Eight policemen were injured after suspected militants hurled a grenade at Tehsil office in south Kashmir’s Pulwama town.
# December 31, 2017: January 1, 2018: Five CRPF personnel were killed and three others were injured in a 24-hour long encounter between the Border Security Forces (BSF) and suspected JeM militants in South Kashmir’s Lethapora. Three militants were also neutralised during the gun battle.
# March 29, 2017: Militants opened fired at a police station in south Kashmir's Kulgam district. Nobody was hurt in the attack.
# November 29, 2016: Terrorists entered the premises of 166 army unit stationed at Nagrota-based 16 Corps headquarters on the outskirts of Jammu city, killing 7 soldiers including 2 officers.
# November 24, 2016: Militants attacked Kralgund police station in Handwara tehsil of Kupwara.
# October 6, 2016: A Rashtriya Rifles camp attack was foiled when security men gunned down three militants after an exchange of fire in the Langate area of Handwara in North Kashmir.
# October 2, 2016: The heavily-armed terrorists attacked a Rashtriya Rifles army camp. Two terrorists and a soldier were killed, and one soldier was injured.
# September 18, 2016: Seventeen soldiers were killed in a militant attack in Uri area of Baramulla district. Fidayeen militants stormed an Army camp in Uri near the Line of Control (LoC) around 4 am. Four militants were killed in the encounter.
# June 25, 2016: Eight CRPF personnel were killed and 20 others injured when militants attacked their convoy at Frestbal near Pampore in Srinagar on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway.
# February 21, 2016: Three army commandos, including two Captains and a militant, were killed in a fierce gunfight with a group of terrorists holed up inside a government building on the outskirts of Srinagar, raising the toll to seven in the encounter that began a day earlier.
# January 1-2 , 2016: a group of heavily-armed Pakistani terrorists struck at an Air Force base in Pathankot three security personnel were killed along with six attackers.
# December 7, 2015: Six CRPF personnel injured when militants opened firing on their convoy near Green Tunnel at Samthan in Bijbehara in South Kashmir's Anantnag District.
# November 25, 2015: Three JeM militants and a generator operator of MES was killed when a group of militants attacked an Army camp near LoC at Tanghdar in North Kashmir's Kupwara District.
# November 18, 2015: A Colonel with the Army's elite Para Commando unit was killed in an encounter with militants in the forests of Kupwara.
# August 5, 2015: Two Border Security Force jawans and a militant were killed and eight others injured when militants attacked a convoy of the border guarding force on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Udhampur district.
# May 31, 2015: Army foils attack on its Brigade headquarters in Tanghdar sector of Kupwara District by killing four members of six heavily armed militants.
# March 21, 2015: Two terrorists were killed during a fidayeen attack at the Army camp on Jammu-Pathankot National Highway in Samba District. Three persons including one civilian, a Major and an Army jawan were also injured during the attack.
# March 20, 2015: A fidayeen squad of militants in Army fatigues stormed a Police Station in Kathua District killing seven persons, including three SF personnel, two civilian and two militants while 12 persons, including eight CRPF personnel, three Policemen and a civilian were also injured in the incident.
# December 5, 2014: A group of heavily armed militants stormed into an Army's 31 Field Regiment Ordinance Camp located at Mohra in Uri Sector of Baramulla District near the LoC.One Lieutenant Colonel and seven soldiers of the Army, one ASI and two constables of Jammu and Kashmir Police were killed. Six militants were also killed in the operation.
# November 27, 2014: 10 persons, including four civilians, three Army soldiers and three militants were killed in a day-long encounter at border village of Kathaar in Arnia sector, close to the International Border, of Jammu District.
# June 24, 2013: Eight soldiers killed in attack on military convoy at Hyderpora, Srinagar.
# March 31, 2013: 5 soldiers killed in an attack on CRPF camp in Srinagar.
# October 5, 2006: Terrorists attacked Budshah Chowk in Srinagar, killing 5 Police personnel, two CRPF soldiers and one civilian.
# July 22, 2003: A 3-member team stormed an army camp killing eight security force personnel and injuring 12 others in Akhnoor.
# May 14, 2002: 36 persons were killed and 48 others injured in a fidayeen attack on an army cantonment in Kaluchak, Jammu.
# November 3, 1999: 10 army men were killed in fidayeen attack on 15 Corps Headquarters in Srinagar's Badami Bagh.
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