IED event in Jammu & Kashmir, Mendhar in Poonch District area, India on Wed 22nd September 2021

Forty-days after four sticky bombs were recovered along with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), the bombs were destroyed along banks of a river near Bharirakh in Mendhar in Poonch District of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on September 22, reports Daily Excelsior. Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO), Mendhar, Z A Jaffri said that the bombs, recovered along with an IED on August 13 in Mendhar, were destroyed on the directions of a court. The bombs were claimed to have been recovered at a joint naka (Police check post) by Border Security Force (BSF), Police and Army. “During checking a suspicious person identified as Mehmood Hussain son of Mohammad Munshi of Kasbalari was apprehended and during his personal search an IED having four sticky bombs and an amount of rupees 10500 have been recovered from his possession,” SDPO, Jaffri said, adding, “In this regard an FIR no.313/2021 u/s 23 ULAPA has been registered in police station Mendhar.”