Prompt response: Bomb targeting school defused
Had the bomb gone off, the building would have been completely destroyed.
Had the bomb gone off, the building would have been completely destroyed. PHOTO: FILE
KATLANG:
A terror bid was foiled when the police successfully defused a homemade explosive device planted inside government middle school for boys in Katlang on Wednesday.
Katlang police SHO Shah Mumtaz said they were informed by the headmaster of the school about a suspicious sack found inside the school’s premises in Kotkai area. Following this, police rushed to the school along with the bomb disposal squad (BDS) at around 7am. The school was immediately evacuated as BDS officials worked on the bomb. “A homemade bomb weighing about 15 kilogrammes was placed in the sack,” said SHO Mumtaz, adding the BDS managed to successfully defuse it.
Had the bomb gone off, the building would have been completely destroyed considering the amount of explosives, he added. “The explosion could also have resulted in casualties of students who were present in the building at the time.” An FIR has been registered against unidentified militants.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 12th, 2013.
A terror bid was foiled when the police successfully defused a homemade explosive device planted inside government middle school for boys in Katlang on Wednesday.
Katlang police SHO Shah Mumtaz said they were informed by the headmaster of the school about a suspicious sack found inside the school’s premises in Kotkai area. Following this, police rushed to the school along with the bomb disposal squad (BDS) at around 7am. The school was immediately evacuated as BDS officials worked on the bomb. “A homemade bomb weighing about 15 kilogrammes was placed in the sack,” said SHO Mumtaz, adding the BDS managed to successfully defuse it.
Had the bomb gone off, the building would have been completely destroyed considering the amount of explosives, he added. “The explosion could also have resulted in casualties of students who were present in the building at the time.” An FIR has been registered against unidentified militants.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 12th, 2013.