Bareilly,

18 June (HS): On Wednesday, authorities discovered a mortar shell buried

underground near the railway tracks in the Subhash Nagar neighborhood. The

shell was discovered while working for a new embankment with a JCB. Local police and an Army disposal squad

responded and defused the old, unexploded weapon. Anurag Arya, Senior

Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Bareilly, stated that they were alerted about

the shell about 1 a.m. on Wednesday.

We

received word that a suspicious object like a mortar shell had been discovered

in a mound of earth being deposited by a JCB near the railway tracks in the

Subhash Nagar police station area.

SSP

Arya stated that the local Bareilly Police bomb disposal unit came on the

site. They were joined by an Army

disposal crew, who identified the object as an old mortar shell. The

army unit subsequently securely neutralised the shell, according to the SSP.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi