Powerful IEDs recovered near LoC ahead of polling for Udhampur seat
Reports said that the IEDs were recovered near the Line of Control (LoC) in a joint search operation by the Rashtriya Rifles of the Indian Army, CRPF and J&K Police.
Masked gunmen on Friday robbed a bank in Ratnipora area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, decamping with several lakh rupees, less than 24 hours after a similar incident in Anantnag.
The men barged into a branch of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank at Ratnipora and made away with the cash, a police official said.
Bank officials are calculating the exact amount of cash looted, he said.
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Yesterday, Rs 5.39 lakh was robbed from the same bank’s Marhama branch and the culprits have been identified as Hizbul Mujahideen militants Rasik Nabi Bhat alias Owais and Salia Mohammad alias Rehaan, a police spokesman said.
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