AURANGABAD: Several persons Friday congregated
in Begumpura area
in Aurangabad and burnt Pakistan's national
flagin protest against the terror attack on a CRPF convoy
inrestive Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.
Raising anti-Pakistan slogans, the gathering, comprising mostly youth, asked the neighbouring country to stop supporting terror activities and giving terrorists a safe haven to launch attacks against India.
At least 37 CRPF personnel were killed and five injured on Thursday
in one of the deadliest terror attacks
in Jammu and Kashmir when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into their bus
inPulwama district.
More than 2,500
Central Reserve Police Force 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
inAwantiporain south Kashmir.
Pakistan-based terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has claimed responsibility for the attack that took place about 20 km from
Srinagar.
Officer-bearers from several political parties as well as citizens' groups here said that they planned to hold protests
in different parts of
Aurangabad, including Kranti Chowk, later Friday afternoon