A tragedy on the Srinagar-Kupwara highway near Handwara has been averted. Terrorists had planted an IED with LPG cylinders on the highway. However, the incident was averted when an air defence unit in the area detected it.
Security forces tightened and halted traffic movement in Baramulla as a suspicious object likely an IED detected on Srinagar Baramulla National Highway at Hanjiwera Pattan.
The IED-like material was spotted alongside the national highway at Sangpur village of Rajouri.
IED was recovered in the Puthkah area of Sopore. Traffic was suspended after the suspicious object was located in the Sangrama stretch of the highway.
The police, in its release, informed that acting on intelligence reports, in a joint search operation of the Pulwama police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), "IED weighing approx 5 kgs was found assembled in a container."
IEDs are planted by the militants near highways and on other surface links to target vehicles of the security forces and the VIPs.
An IED of 5/6 kg weight was recovered by Jammu police by a LeT outfit operative and which was planned to plant at some crowded place.
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
The IED recovery comes close on the heels of the arrest of two top terrorists from Kunjwani in Jammu and Bari Brahmana area of Samba district. The device was detected acting on specific information, the officials said.
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