Srinagar, Jun 11 (PTI) Security forces on Saturday detected an improvised explosive device (IED) along a highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, officials said here.
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Official sources said that some suspicious box, suspected to carry an IED, was found at Bulgam Hygam near Timepass hotel in the Sopore area of the north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Soon police and Army’s 52 RR rushed to the spot and subsequently called Bomb Disposal Squad.
As a precautionary measure, a police officer said that traffic through the area was suspended. The object turned out to be an IED and was safely defused by the BDS, he said. Traffic through the area has also been restored. “A case has been registered".
Officials said that the IED may have been planted to target the security forces.
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