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Last updated: June 12, 2023, 1:40 PM IST
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Officers said the recovered shell may have been lying at the site for some time (Representative Photo/PTI)
A BSF road-opening group found the explosives in the general area of Bhatpura village near a stream on the Handwara-Naogaon highway.
Officials said that on Monday, security forces recovered an old mortar shell in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
They said that a road-opening group of the British security forces found the explosives in a public area in Bhatpura village near a stream on the Handwara-Nawgaon highway.
They said that the shell found may have been lying at the site for some time.
(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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