Srinagar: Militants made a vain bid to blow up a polling booth hours before the electioneering was to end in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency today (April 18, 2004).

Alert Army and police personnel detected an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by ultras in a school building in Baramulla town to be used as a polling booth for April 20 Lok Sabha elections, official sources said.

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The device was defused before it could cause any damage, they said.

Baramulla is one of the two constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir going to polls in the first phase on April 20.