On Wednesday, April 9, 2025, the Indian Army's Chinar Warriors and the Jammu and Kashmir police recovered and destroyed an IED on the Wadder-Haphruda road at Haphruda village in Kupwara, north Kashmir.
During a routine patrol in the Hafroda forest area security forces discovered a suspicious object on the roadside.
A closer inspection revealed that the suspicious object was an IED.
The area was cordoned off and a bomb disposal squad was called which destroyed the IED without causing any damage.
IMAGE: A bomb squad member tries to defuse the IED. Photographs: ANI Photo
IMAGE: Security forces inspect the object before the bomb squad is summoned.
IMAGE: The IED is successfully defused.
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