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Security forces seized 150 kg of deadly RDX from a terrorist hideout and arrested one person in Sopore town of Baramulla district on Friday night, a Border Security Force spokesman said on Saturday.
The RDX, kept in three gunny bags each weighing 50 kg, was seized by the BSF from a hideout at Kalashpora-Wahibug in Sopore, 60 km from Srinagar, he said.
One person, Farooq Ahmad Shah, was arrested in this connection.
The spokesman said the BSF had unearthed another terrorist hideout at Deyan in Lolab area of Kupwara district in north Kashmir and seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition.
The BSF troops also arrested an electrical engineer from Pakistan, who had illegally crossed the international border in the Ramgarh sub-sector on Friday night, sources said.
He was identified as Amiz Ali of Sahiwal village in Pakistan, the sources said, adding that he was later handed over to the police.
In Doda district, terrorists killed a local woman leader, official sources said.
The terrorists had barged into the house of one Mohammad Ayob Khan at Kalotrian village and fired indiscriminately, which resulted in the death of his wife, they said.
The dead woman, Shafeeqa Begum, was a local leader and a social activist, the sources said, adding that the terrorists had escaped.
PTI
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