IED detected outside Army camp in Srinagar

Security forces on Saturday detected an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by militants outside an Army camp in the heart of the city.

A patrol party of 151 Territorial Army noticed a bag lying by the roadside near an Army camp in Bemina area of the city, the police said.

The Army personnel found a pressure cooker inside the bag and immediately called for the bomb disposal squad, the police said.

The five-kg IED was destroyed by the bomb disposal squad, police said, adding no damage was caused in the controlled explosion.