Bomb defused: Police building targeted in Peshawar

“The device weighed at least two and a half kilogrammes and it was indeed a booby trap," says police.

PESHAWAR: An unidentified motorcyclist hurled a homemade bomb inside an under construction building of the Badhaber police station on Kohat Road in the city suburbs, on Friday night. Police surrounded the building and called in the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) who successfully defused the bomb. Police said the device had been connected to a remote control and it had been timed to explode once policemen gathered around the site after the first blast. “The device weighed at least two and a half kilogrammes and it was indeed a booby trap but with the grace of God we were able to defuse it,” an official of the Badhaber police station told The Express Tribune. 

 

Published in The Express Tribune, February 2^nd, 2013.