Pampore terror attack: Driver who helped the four terrorists identified

July 03, 2016 17:48

Security agencies have identified the driver of the car which ferried the 'fidayeen' terrorists who ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force bus killing eight personnel, as a probe pointed to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba attackers having infiltrated into Kashmir Valley through higher reaches of Gulmarg early last month.

Official sources said on Sunday that the driver, whose identity has been withheld, had driven four militants of Pakistan-based terror outfit LeT from Baba Reshi, 57 km from Srinagar, four days before the deadly attack in

Pampore on June 25 and kept them in a safe house in Pulwama district in south Kashmir.

The driver, who has gone underground since the day of the attack, was considered as over ground worker of the militant outfit by the local police but no action was taken against him as there was no evidence so far, the sources said. Security agencies are now hot on the trail of the driver.

Piecing together the evidence collected by the security agencies so far, they said the four 'fidayeens' (suicide attackers) infiltrated through the higher reaches of Gulmarg in north Kashmir and reached south Kashmir in a Tata Sumo vehicle.

Initially all the four terrorists had carried out a reconnaissance of the national highway and chose the attack spot which is barely three kilometers from Entrepreneurship Development Institute, where LeT militants had gunned down two army officers and three others ranks in February this year.

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