Explosive material weighing about 52kg was recovered from near Letapora in Jammu & Kashmir, foiling another Pulwama-like attack, Army officials said on Thursday.
"We have averted another Pulwama-type attack," said an Army official. A joint search operation earlier in the day led to the discovery of a water tank in the Karewa area of Gadikal from where 52kg of explosives in 416 packets of 125 grams each were recovered. Another water tank with 50 detonators was also recovered. The explosives are called "Super-90" or S-90 in short, officials said.
Karewa is very close to the national highway and about 9km from the February 2019 attack site in Pulwama in which over 40 CRPF soldiers had lost their lives.
On February 14 last year, a suicide bomber had rammed a car full of explosives into a security convoy leading to the deaths of the paramilitary jawans.
Recently, the National Investigation Agency said in its charge-sheet that Pakistan-based terrorist Masood Azhar and his brother Rauf Asghar were the key conspirators behind the Pulwama attack.