{"id":171765,"date":"2021-09-15T00:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=171765"},"modified":"2021-09-15T00:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T19:00:30","slug":"security-forces-defuse-6-grenades-placed-along-nh-44-in-srinagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/15\/security-forces-defuse-6-grenades-placed-along-nh-44-in-srinagar\/","title":{"rendered":"Security forces defuse 6 grenades placed along NH 44 in Srinagar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Srinagar, Sep 13 (PTI) Security forces on Monday averted a major tragedy by detecting and defusing six hand grenades placed by militants on the busy Parimpora-Panthachowk axis in Srinagar, officials said here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;During a routine road opening exercise along National Highway 44, alert troopers of the 73 Battalion of the CRPF recovered six Chinese grenades from a sandbag placed on a divider of the road,&#8221; a spokesperson of the force said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the troops averted a major incident on the busy highway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Since there was a lot of rush on the highway, the grenades were not demolished in situ. They were handed over to the police for disposal,&#8221; the official added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The anticipation exercise along the busy arterial road connecting south Kashmir with north led to a traffic snarl on the highway as well as in other parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stretch where the grenades were found is used by security forces to reach places in remote border districts, including Kupwara and Bandipora.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The same road is also used to reach Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Sep 13 (PTI) Security forces on Monday averted a major tragedy by detecting and defusing six hand grenades placed by militants on the busy Parimpora-Panthachowk axis in Srinagar, officials said here. &#8220;During a routine road opening exercise along National Highway 44, alert troopers of the 73 Battalion of the CRPF recovered six Chinese grenades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}