The explosion took place near Kakapora, a village about 45km south of Srinagar, in the Pulwama district.  There was no train on the tracks when the bomb went off and there were no casualties. The service was restored by Friday afternoon.

The line connecting Qazigund in the south with Baramulla in the north, a distance of 120km was opened in October 2008. It is being extended further as a national project of high importance.

Militants have made several attempts in the recent past to sabotage train services in the Valley but this was for the first time they had succeeded in their attempt. Last year, suspected militants had stolen iron links, which hold track to the sleepers, from nearly one and half kilometre stretch of the railway track in Pulwama district.

Again last year, train services were suspended for more than two hours after the Railway authorities received a threat call that militants were planning to attack the train between Pampore and Kakapora railway stations. The threat later turned out to be a hoax.

On April 8, 2009, security forces foiled a militant bid to blow up the track as they recovered a 25-kg IED near the line at Khelan in Bijbehara area of Anantnag district