They said the place where the explosives were recovered was near the Jammu and Kashmir highway and about 9 km from the site of the Pulwama attack in which 40 CRPF members were killed.
“We have prevented another Pulwama-type attack,” said an Army official.
Officials said the explosives were found in a Syntex water tank in the Karewa area of Gadikal during a search operation around 8 a.m.
“There were 416 packages of explosives and each of them weighed 125 grams,” said an official, adding that another 50 detonators were recovered from another Syntex tank in the area in subsequent searches.
The explosives are called “Super-90” or S-90 in short, the official said.
On February 14 last year, a suicide bomber had rammed an explosives-laden car into a CRPF convoy in Pulwama, killing 40 soldiers. It was one of the deadliest attacks in Kashmir in recent years.
The Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) had claimed responsibility for the attack.
Twelve days after the attack, Indian warplanes attacked a JeM terrorist training ground deep in Pakistan, causing a massive escalation of tension between the two countries.
Last month, the NIA filed a charge sheet in the case, detailing how JeM planned and executed the attack. The NIA named Masood Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf Asghar, and several others on the charge sheet.
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