Army troops recovered an improvised explosive device (IED) and later defused it in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Thursday, a defence spokesman said.
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An army patrol party detected the IED fitted in the branch of a tree in the forest area of Sawalkot in Ratangir ridge, he said.
The IED was destroyed later, the spokesman added.
With the destruction of the IED, a potential tragedy was averted. ( PTI )
