Mortar shell defused along LoC in J&K's Poonch

A unrecorded mortar ammunition was safely defused by information forces successful a guardant colony adjacent the Line of Control (LoC) successful Poonch territory of Jammu and Kashmir connected Saturday (March 7, 2026), officials said.

A borderline nonmigratory spotted the mortar ammunition lying successful a secluded country of Brari colony successful the Sawjian assemblage and alerted the Army portion and the section constabulary post, they said.

A weaponry disposal squad was rushed to the scene, and the mortar ammunition was defused without causing immoderate damage, officials said.

The ammunition was seemingly fired from crossed the borderline earlier but had remained unexploded, they said.

Recovery of specified mortar shells successful guardant areas is simply a regular occurrence arsenic ordnance fired during ceasefire violations often stay buried oregon undetected for agelong periods earlier being found, officials said.

They added that specified unexploded ordnance poses a superior hazard to civilians surviving successful borderline areas. Security forces and weaponry disposal squads are often called successful to unafraid the country and safely defuse oregon dispose of these shells to forestall immoderate untoward incident.