On Saturday, the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested two people who were allegedly involved in making improvised explosive devices (IED) from Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district. A police spokesman said that on a credible input, searches were conducted at various locations in the district in the early hours of Saturday.

"During the searches, industrial explosives planned to be used in fabricating IEDs was recovered in a large quantity," he said. He further said that two people were arrested and efforts were on to nab the other conspirators.