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JAMMU, INDIA, August 11, 2004: Suspending the Amarnath Yatra for three hours, troops on Wednesday foiled a terror plan to strike the pilgrims by recovering a 12 kg Improvised Explosive Device on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, officials sources said. Terrorists had planted a 12 kg RDX-filled IED on Jammu-Srinagar Highway at Ramso in Doda district to target the Amarnath Yatra convoy on its way to Pahalgam base camp from Jammu at around 0900 hours, sources told PTI. Just a few minutes before the arrival of the convoy, vigilant Army troops of a Road Opening Party detected the IED and alerted police and security along the highway, they said. The convoy of pilgrims was stopped and IED was recovered and later defused by the bomb disposal squad in nearly one hour long exercise, they said. The RDX filled IED had also contents of petrol chemicals capable of causing fire after the explosion, they said, adding that the same type of IED was used in the blasting of a BSF vehicle near Jawahar tunnel on the same highway killing 34 security men and their family members in first week of July. The yatra, after suspending for three hours, was allowed to move towards Pahalgam base camp around 1100 hours, they said.

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