A 32-year-old man chargesheeted in the deadly terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district five years ago has died of a heart attack in the Government Medical College Hospital here, officials said.
Bilal Ahmad Kuchey of Kakapora’s Hajibal village was among 19 people formally charged in the case. Forty CRPF personnel were killed and eight more injured when a terrorist of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad rammed his explosive-laden car into a convoy in Pulwama’s Lethpora on February 14, 2019.
According to officials, Kuchey was hospitalised on September 17 after he fell sick at the Kishtwar district jail. He died of a heart attack on Monday night, they added.