IED blast in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli, CRPF personnel injured; no casualties yet

IED blast in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, CRPF personnel injured, according to media reports.

This comes after the deadly Pulwama attack against CRPF on February 14. More than 2,500 CRPF 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 in south Kashmir around 3.15 pm on Thursday. The Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror group has claimed responsibility for the attack that took place about 20 km from Srinagar.