<span style="color: #222222;">Security Forces today averted a major incident of a vehicle-borne IED blast in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. An improvised explosive device (IED) recovered from a car in Ayengund area of Rajpora in South Kashmir's Pulwama district was defused by the personnel of the bomb disposal squad this morning.        <br />''<br />''The white coloured car was flagged by security forces at a mobile vehicle check point but the driver of the vehicle sped away prompting the security forces to fire few shots at the vehicle which they found abandoned some distance away.<br />''<br />''IG Police, Vijay Kumar congratulated the security forces for this success. He said in a briefing that Pulwama police received a credible information yesterday that a terrorist was moving with an explosive laden car. He informed that car was carrying about 45 kgs of Ammonium Nitrate explosive.<br />''<br />''In a joint operation of Army, J&K Police and CRPF, the security forces blasted the vehicle and subsequently averted a major catastrophe that could have arisen out of the vehicle-borne IED blast.</span>