5 kg IED seized near Indo-Pak border in Punjab
5 kg IED seized near Indo-Pak border in Punjab
CHANDIGARH: Just
a month ahead of the assembly elections in Punjab, a Special Task Force (STF)
of the Punjab Police on Friday recovered 5 kg of Improvised Explosive Device
(IED) and Rs 1 lakh in cash from near the India-Pakistan border.
The seizure was made on the outskirts of Dhanoa village of
Ajnala sub-division (sub-division) near Attari border on a tip-off about
smuggling of arms and ammunition from across the border.
STF
Assistant Inspector General Rashpal Singh told the media, "On a special
alert, our teams launched a search operation and found a suspicious packet in
the fields.
He said that initially it seemed that a consignment of drugs was
kept in the packet. A bomb disposal squad was called on suspicion of
explosives, the official said. 5 kg IED was found in the packet with one
lakh rupees.
A day earlier, Punjab Police had recovered 2.5 kg RDX, a
detonator, codex wire, five explosive fuses including wire and 12 cartridges of
AK-47 assault rifle.
Director General of Police (DGP) V.K. Bhavra had told that
the recovery of RDX has been done after interrogating Amandeep Kumar, the main
accused in two recent incidents of grenade attack in Pathankot.
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