Bomb scare: Eight bombs in Jacobabad defused

SUKKUR:

The police’s timely action saved Jacobabad city from eight bombs, suspected to be made in the United States, on Monday.

Residents informed the police after they found suspicious cartons outside a medical store near Habib Chowk on Quaid-e-Azam Road, Iron Market in City police limits and outside a private school in Family Lines. The police immediately called the bomb disposal squad officials who successfully defused the bombs.

There were eight bombs in three cartons, informed bomb disposal squad in-charge Irshad Soomro, adding the bombs were smoke bombs and weighed approximately 125 grammes each. The bombs were suspected to be made in the US and were attached to a timed-device.  The bombs contained slugs, which could have caused devastation in case of explosion, he said. The bomb disposal squad is going to burn the explosive powder recovered from defused bombs.

Jacobabad police have arrested a suspect, Gul Sahib Khan a resident of Laki Marwat, who claims to be a Frontier Constabulary personnel.

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Published in The Express Tribune, August 27^th, 2013.