The deadly attack carried out by three Jaish-e-Muhammad militants at Lethpora in Pulwama district on Sunday has left a “series of challenges” for security forces in Kashmir as preliminary investigations have suggested that the attackers used “steel-coated armour-piercing bullets to inflict maximum damage” to the central reserve police force personnel. This is for apparently for the first time that militants have been found using bullets that pierce bulletproof shields used by forces to protect themselves during gunfights, an officer told Kashmir Post. The CRPF officer said that one of the…
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