Jammu Oct 21 PTI Army troops recovered an improvised explosive device IED and later defused it in Jammu and Kashmirs Poonch district on Thursday a defence spokesman said An army patrol party detected the IED fitted in the branch of a tree in the forest area of Sawalkot in Ratangir ridge he said The IED was destroyed later the spokesman added With the destruction of the IED a potential tragedy was averted PTI AB HDA HDA