A major tragedy was averted Saturday with timely detection of an improvised explosive device (IED) near the Line of Control (LoC) in Akhnoor sector here, police said.
The IED was found planted on the roadside by a police partyduring routine patrolling at Nandwal chowk on Khour-Pallanwala road, a policespokesman said.
He said the policemen noticed a suspicious object on theroadside at around 10.55 am and sounded an alert.
Bomb disposal squads of police and the Army along withreinforcements rushed to the scene and isolated the area before successfullydiffusing the explosive substance, the spokesman said.
He said the search in the area was still going to find ifmore IEDs were planted.
A police officer said a case has been registered and a hunt has been launched to nab the suspected terrorists who planted the IED.