Terrorist's arrest leads to recovery of 7kg IED; disaster averted in Jammu

JAMMU: A seven-kilogram Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was detected from the crowded general bus stand area in Jammu today averting a major tragedy and a plot by terrorists to set off an explosion on the completion of two years of Pulwama attack 2019.

The IED recovery comes close on the heels of the arrest of two top terrorists from Kunjwani in Jammu and Bari Brahmana area of Samba district.

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Zahoor Ahmad Rather, a top terrorist who was associated with the Resistance Front (TRF) and was wanted in connection with the killing of three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and a police officer in South Kashmir last year was arrested on Saturday.

On this day, two years ago, Pakistan-sponsored Jaish-e-Mohammed carried out a gruesome attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy of 70 vehicles in Pulwama, causing 40 jawans to die.