SAMBA: Traffic on the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway was suspended for over an hour following the detection of a suspicious bag outside an Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district on Wednesday, officials said.
The black bag was found in the afternoon lying below a highway flyover at Maheshwar.
Army and police personnel cordoned off the area and a bomb disposal squad was called in to check the bag, forcing suspension of traffic on the highway as a precautionary measure.
The bomb squad found some clothes and other personal belongings in the bag, the officials said. ”Nothing (incriminating) was found inside … Traffic on the highway has been restored,” Senior Superintendent of Police (Samba) Benam Tosh told reporters. ‘
‘All security agencies are (on) alert in view of the ongoing Amarnath Yatra and anything found suspicious is being checked thoroughly, in accordance with the standard operating procedure,” Tosh said
