BARAMULLA : Security personnel found and detonated an improvised explosive device in Baramulla area on Monday, before Independence Day, officials said.
The IED was discovered in a bag near a college in the Kanispora area of the district by a patrolling team of the army and police, they reported.They said that once a bomb disposal team was called to the scene, the IED was neutralised without any collateral damage.
In the past, a suspicious bag was discovered by the side of the road in Heeri, Kupwara district, north Kashmir.
one officer reported that “an explosive shell has been recovered from the bag that was later destroyed by the BDS.”