Srinagar: Security forces on Saturday detected a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) along a highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, officials said here. Authorities were prompted to suspend traffic on the highway after they detected a suspicious object on the Srinagar-Baramulla Highway at Bulgam.
Official sources told GNS that some suspicious box, suspected to carry an IED, was found at Bulgam Hygam near Timepass hotel in Sopore area of the north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Soon police and Army’s 52 RR rushed to the spot and subsequently called Bomb Disposal Squad.
According to official sources, a suspicious box carrying a suspected IED, was found at Bulgam Hygam near Timepass Hotel near Sopore area in north Kashmir's Baramulla district. Police forces and the Army's 52 RR shortly arrived at the spot and later called the Bomb Disposal Squad. A police officer told GNS that traffic throughout the area has been suspended while the BDS is on the job.
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They said a bomb disposal squad has reached the spot along the Srinagar-Baramulla highway, and the device would be detonated. "Security forces detected a suspected IED kept in a bag on the roadside at Bulgam Hygam Tarzoo area of the north Kashmir district," an official said. (With Agency Inputs)
