Mumbai: After a group of protesters in Nalasopara blocked tracks at around 8 am on Saturday morning, bringing movement to a halt while protesting against the Wednesday’s terror attack in Pulwama, Kashmir in which 40 CRPF jawans lost their lives, it has been informed by the Western Railways twitter handle that operations of local trains have been restored.
The tweet read, “Tracks at Nallasopara have been cleared of the protesters & trains are now running up to Virar & beyond.”
Tracks at Nallasopara have been cleared of the protesters & trains are now running up to Virar & beyond. #WRUpdates @drmbct
— Western Railway (@WesternRly) February 16, 2019
At least 40 CRPF troopers were killed and some 20 others injured on Thursday when a van packed with explosives reportedly rammed into a CRPF bus on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. In the deadliest attack ever on security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, a Jaish suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into a CRPF convoy of 70 vehicles in Pulwama district.
The attack took place when the CRPF was moving 2,547 CRPF jawans/officers in two convoys moving close to each other from Jammu to South Kashmir in 78 vehicles including, buses, armoured vehicles and jeeps.
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