Police bust militant module, seize IED in JK

Police officials in Jammu and Kashmir have busted a module of the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), arresting five militants and seizing an improvised explosive device (IED). Deputy inspector general (DIG) of Police, Syed Ahfad-ul Mujtaba, told reporters that some of the members of the module, five of whom the police were able to arrest, belonged to the town of Tral in the state's Pulwama district. Mujtaba said that the IED recovered from the militants' possession had been placed in an aluminium container used by dairy farmers to transport milk, so as to seem innocuous, adding that it was meant to be placed alongside a route frequented by security personnel.