SRINAGAR: Security forces recovered a suspected hideout and several items, including containers believed to be improvised explosive devices (IEDs), in the Kasbalari area of Mendhar in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Friday, officials said.
They said the recovery followed a search operation launched in the general area of Kasbalari on the basis of specific intelligence inputs.
During the operation, the forces recovered a black bag, six brown tape-insulated containers suspected to be IEDs, a combat pouch, a black iron box suspected to be a magazine, and a blue tape-insulated container also suspected to be an IED.
The recovered items also included a magazine suspected to be for a 7.62 mm light machine gun (LMG), an aluminium container, two power adapters and a power source, and a tiffin.
Further investigation into the recovery has been initiated, officials said.
