Srinagar, Feb. 21 -- Security forces averted a tragedy after diffusing an IED at Janbazpora on the outskirts of the Baramulla town on Friday.

Officials said that the Army's 46 Rashtriya Rifles night patrol party recovered an IED near Janbazpora. The IED was placed on the Baramulla-Handwara highway.

After officials spotted the IED, they secured the area and halted traffic on the highway.The police, SOG Baramulla and the bomb disposal squad joined the operation and diffused the IED.

On Wednesday the police recovered suspicious object near Pattan on Srinagar-Baramulla national highway and later diffused it.

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