Jammu, May 5
Five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and two wireless sets were recovered after a terrorist hideout was busted in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, said officials on Monday.
Officials said that five ready-to-use IEDs, weighing between half a kg and five kgs, were destroyed in a controlled explosion on the spot, thereby thwarting terrorist plans to set off explosions in the border district.
“The hideout was busted during a joint search operation by the Army and the special operations group (SoG) of J&K Police at Suranthal in Marhote area of Surankote late Sunday evening," said officials.
Two IEDs were found planted inside steel buckets, and three others were packed in tiffin boxes. In addition, two wireless sets, five packets containing urea, one five-litre gas cylinder, one pair of binoculars, three woollen caps, three blankets and some trousers and utensils were recovered from the hideout, the officials further said.
After the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, in which 26 civilians, including 25 tourists and a local, were killed in Baisaran meadow, security forces have started massive crackdowns in the Valley and the Jammu division against terrorists, their overground workers (OGWs) and sympathisers.