RDX recovered, militant killed and 5 arrested in J

Srinagar, Apr 27 (UNI) Militants made an unsuccessful attempt to detonate a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on the highway today, a day before employees of the darbar move offices started their return journey to the summer capital of Srinagar from the winter capital of Jammu.

Security forces killed one militant and arrested five others and recovered deadly RDX in Jammu and Kashmir overnight.

Official sources said militants planted a 10 kg powerful IED beneath a culvert in Qazigund area on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway to target a security force convoy.

However, alert personnel of the Road Opening Party (ROP) during the search of the area, noticed the IED.

They said traffic on the highway was stopped and a Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) summoned. Later, it was defused without causing any damage.

The IED was planted a day before state government employees working with move offices started their journey from Jammu to here.

The civil secretariat, seat of the government, and other darbar move offices were closed at Jammu this afternoon to reopen here on May seven.

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