The IED was recovered during a joint search operation by police, Rashtriya Rifles and CRPF from the forest area of Sanai-Gursai in the Mendhar sub-division.
IEDs are planted by the militants near highways and on other surface links to target vehicles of the security forces and the VIPs.
A police official said that an IED was detected by a joint team of forces at Dadasara area of Tral on late Thursday night which was later destroyed by the bomb disposal squad.
The terrorists are believed to have planted the IED during the intervening night under the cover of darkness, the officials said, adding that a massive search operation is on to arrest the terrorists who were planning to set off the blast.
Security forces on Monday detected an improvised explosive device (IED) in J&K's Pulwama district.
Security forces detected and neutralized an improvised explosive device (IED) on Sunday following inputs about a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district
According to police sources, a bomb disposal squad defused the object on Tuesday morning, after which traffic was restored.
Srinagar, May 1: A major tragedy was averted Tuesday after an improvised explosive device (IED) was detected and defused on the Srinagar-Muzzafarabad highway on which Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had passed twice during the day,
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