Srinagar, July 12 (ANI): Police defused a bomb placed in a suitcase near the Jawahar Tunnel, dubbed as state's lifeline, here on Thursday.
Acting on a tip off, the bomb squad and local dog squad neutralised the bomb and also recovered five kilograms of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) from the site.
Interacting with mediapersons here, Inspector General of Police B. N. Ramesh, said, "Our team found a green box with protruding yellow wires and immediately alerted the 24 Battalion. We stopped the traffic on both sides and the bomb defusal squad and the local dog squad was sent, the areas was sanitized."
"We are examining the possibility whether it (IED) was a remote control thing and we collected some forensic evidence," he said.
Ramesh refrained from blaming anyone for planting the bomb.
"I cannot say Yatra was an intended target, because the putting of the device at that point at 8:00 pm, it can be any convoy. There is no point in accusing anybody without any evidence," he said. (ANI)
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