Srinagar, Oct 7: A UGBL grenade was defused on Thursday afternoon after found lying in crop fields in Kulgam, officials sources said.

They said that upon intimation army’s 1 RR and police visited the spot and a bomb disposal squad was called to the site.

The BDS defused the shell without causing damage to anyone or anything, they said.

Pertinently a militant was killed in an encounter at the same spot on August 12 this year. gns