<p>Security forces on Monday averted a major tragedy when they detected and defused an improvised explosive device (IED) near the railway crossing in Nowgam area of central Kashmir's Budgam district on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.</p>.<p>A police official said that the IED was planted a few hundred meters away from the Nowgam Railway station near a bridge. The rail service between Banihal in the Jammu division and Baramulla in Kashmir division resumed earlier in the day after remaining suspended for 11 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.</p>.<p>“The object was spotted by the Road Opening Party (RoP) of the army and the police team early this morning. A bomb disposal squad (BDS) was called to check the object that turned out to be an IED fitted in a tin box,” he said.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/intra-kashmir-train-service-resumes-after-11-months-953955.html" target="_blank">Read | Intra-Kashmir train service resumes after 11 months</a></strong></p>.<p>The traffic on the road was suspended till the BDS defused the IED. “The IED has been defused and traffic has been restored in the area,” the official said and added the IED may have been planted to target the security forces, especially convoys.</p>.<p>Earlier on February 14, a seven-kg IED was detected and defused near the crowded general bus stand area in Jammu city.<br /> <br />Pertinently, Srinagar is on a high alert with intense frisking and nakas of joint teams of police and CRPF in the wake of recent militant strikes in the city that left two policemen dead in Barzulla areas of the city.</p>
<p>Security forces on Monday averted a major tragedy when they detected and defused an improvised explosive device (IED) near the railway crossing in Nowgam area of central Kashmir's Budgam district on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.</p>.<p>A police official said that the IED was planted a few hundred meters away from the Nowgam Railway station near a bridge. The rail service between Banihal in the Jammu division and Baramulla in Kashmir division resumed earlier in the day after remaining suspended for 11 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.</p>.<p>“The object was spotted by the Road Opening Party (RoP) of the army and the police team early this morning. A bomb disposal squad (BDS) was called to check the object that turned out to be an IED fitted in a tin box,” he said.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/intra-kashmir-train-service-resumes-after-11-months-953955.html" target="_blank">Read | Intra-Kashmir train service resumes after 11 months</a></strong></p>.<p>The traffic on the road was suspended till the BDS defused the IED. “The IED has been defused and traffic has been restored in the area,” the official said and added the IED may have been planted to target the security forces, especially convoys.</p>.<p>Earlier on February 14, a seven-kg IED was detected and defused near the crowded general bus stand area in Jammu city.<br /> <br />Pertinently, Srinagar is on a high alert with intense frisking and nakas of joint teams of police and CRPF in the wake of recent militant strikes in the city that left two policemen dead in Barzulla areas of the city.</p>
