Early Times Report
Jammu, May 23: A mortar shell, which had remained unexploded during Pakistani shelling, was detected in a farm near the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said. The rusted shell was unearthed when a farmer was busy ploughing his field with a tractor at Darshan Nagar locality of Nowshera sector, the officials said. They said the Army''s bomb disposal squad rushed to the spot and safely defused the mortar shell, averting a major tragedy. |