Poonch encounter: IEDs recovered during searches

By: M S Nazki

Poonch: Two suspected box-type improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were recovered and destroyed by police and army during the searches in Bhatadurian forest area of Mendhar Poonch where militants and forces had sporadic gunfights in the last twelve days. At least nine army soldiers including three JCOs have been killed in the encounter in the woods as well as near the adjoining area which falls in Rajouri district.

Official sources told GNS that the IEDs were recovered during searches at Bhatadurian.

The IEDs were later destroyed by a team of bomb disposal squad. SDPO Mendhar Z A Jaffri confirmed to GNS the recovery and destroying of the IEDs. He said that ant-militancy operation was going on in the area.

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