That too with a simple device: small sticky bombs planted on vehicles carting the enemy. Inspired by its success, Kashmir is now witnessing the entry of this new weapon of offence alongside a shift in the tactical armoury of militancy itself.
Security forces woke up to the threat after a drone consignment was recovered in Samba along the LoC on February 14. Cheap and portable, a sticky bomb packs RDX or TNT into a small box, has a magnet to fix it to the target metal surface, and is detonated remotely with a timer. The security establishment is a bit spooked by the spectre because it can change the rules of engagement in the Valley-especially since planting these IEDs needs no special training. "It just needs two open wires to be connected to activate a blast," says Jammu ADGP Mukesh Singh.
Hence, the skill threshold needed to carry out blasts like the one on May 13when a bomb affixed to the fuel tank of a pilgrim bus en route to Vaishno Devi killed four and left nearly two dozen wounded is considerably lowered.
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