An improvised explosive device (IED) on the Jammu-Srinagar highway was detected near Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir today. Traffic has been suspended on the highway and a bomb disposal squad has been called to defuse the IED.
Movement of traffic on the busy highway was suspended for some time, officials said, adding that a massive search operation is underway to sanitise the area and track down the terrorists who planted the explosive device.
The NIA has arrested Habibur Rehman Sheikh, wanted in the 2014 Burdwan blast case, from the Dodabalpur area of the Karnataka capital.
Police was alerted after a passerby found the suspected explosive with electric wiring and an attached battery near New Sudhagad School, an official said.
A bottle filled with a liquid material and a polybag filled with some solid material was found on the roadside near Kallar chowk along the highway in the morning, Rajouri SSP Yougal Manhas said.
Narayanpur district falls in Bastar Lok Sabha constituency that witnessed voting in the first phase on April 11.
The Times of India reports that an improvised explosive device (IED) was found in a state transport bus at Apta, about 15km from Panvel, in Raigad district.
The report also analysed the recent history of IED blasts in Kashmir and found terrorists were using military-grade explosives such as RDX, PETN (Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate), TNT (Trinitrotoluene) and commercial explosives such as slurries and ammonium nitrate for fabricating IEDs.
This comes few days after the security forces defused an IED, weighing approximately five kilogrammes, on Srinagar-Baramulla highway.
According to the National Bomb Data Centre (NBDC), India had the highest number of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) bomb blasts in the world in the past two years.
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