The security forces in a swift operation averted a major terror plot by timely neutralising an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on Wednesday on the Handwara-Baramulla Highway in Jammu and Kashmir.
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The security forces deployed at Karnah in north Kashmir s Kupwara district have recovered 15 sticks of plastic explosives, officials said on Monday.
The army said that on Sunday night, specific inputs were received that explosives were being exchanged near the Jama Masjid in Tangdhar. On Monday afternoon, a detailed search by the army s bomb disposal squad led to the recovery of explosives, which were supposedly being transhipped to the hinterland, the army said. The operation was conducted in the heart of Tangdhar market with zero inconvenience to locals as per the vendors who were eye-witnesses to the operation, the army added.
Terrorist Hidayatullah Malik, who was arrested on Saturday was planning a major attack in Jammu city being the winter capital of the Jammu and Kashmir, police said.