Rangia, Assam: A powerful IED weighing around 5 kg has been recovered by a joint police and CRPF team from a bus in lower Assam’s Kamrup (rural) district this evening, police said.
On a tip off, the security forces stopped and searched a bus coming from Nalbari towards Guwahati at Dalmagate under Kamalpur police station and recovered the improvised explosive devise (IED) from a bag carrying vegetables, they said.
The area has been cordoned off and the bomb disposal squad from the Army Red Horns Division here rushed to defuse the bomb, they said.
PTI