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Three JeM terrorists, killed in a gunfight near a toll plaza here, had left an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) under a hoarding on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway which another member of the module was to use to target security forces, the police said on Saturday.

The Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists also carried ‘armored piercing steel core ammunition’ which can go through Level 3 protection bullet-proof vehicles that police and other security forces use, they said.

The ammunition was in large quantity and could have posed a grave threat, top police officials said.