Security forces avert militant attack by detection of IED in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla

SRINAGAR: Security forces averted a militant attack by timely detection of an improvised explosive device (IED) in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said.

A patrol party of the Army noticed the IED planted by the ultras by the roadside at the Saidpora crossing in the Dangiwacha area of Baramulla early in the morning, a police official said.

He said a bomb disposal squad was rushed to the spot, which destroyed the IED in situ.

There was no damage due to the controlled explosion of the IED, the police official added.