JAMMU: Security forces averted a tragedy by timely detecting and defusing an improvised explosive device (IED) along the Mendhar-Gohlad link road in Jammu late Saturday.
Panic gripped residents when they found an abandoned motorbike at Pankha village along the link road, about 3km away from the main town of Mendhar, and informed cops. A joint team of Army’s 44RR and J&K Police was heading to the spot when on the way, they came across a box containing the IED along with a bottle of an unknown fluid attached to it, some distance away from where the abandoned bike was found.
A bomb disposal squad was summoned and the area cordoned off. Traffic remained suspended to clear the road in the wake of the security situation. The explosive was successfully defused, Poonch DIG Vivek Gupta confirmed, adding that police were ascertaining whether the IED was linked to the abandoned two-wheeler.