Disaster averted: Police defuse 25kg bomb hidden in bushes in Saeedabad
Officials believe the explosive device was to be moved to another location.
The police said that Ittehad Town police station ASI Tariq was passing through the road in the morning when he saw a suspicious steel box in the bushes and informed the Saeedabad police. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
The police defused a bomb in Saeedabad on Tuesday, averting another possible act of terrorism in the city within three days of the recovery of a bomb from the police training centre.
According to the Sindh Police bomb disposal squad (BDS), the improvised explosive device weighed around 25 kilogrammes and was hidden in the bushes alongside the road in a steel box in Dadu Goth, located in Baldia Town's sector 17-B. "The bomb was ready to be used," said a BDS expert.
The police said that Ittehad Town police station ASI Tariq was passing through the road in the morning when he saw a suspicious steel box in the bushes and informed the Saeedabad police. The police immediately reached the area and cordoned it off as the BDS inspected the box and then confirmed that a bomb was inside it.
According to West SSP Irfan Baloch, the road is unpaved and is rarely used by vehicles. The area has no police and Rangers picket and law enforcement officials do not patrol it often. Since no important personnel live in the area, the target of the bomb could also not be determined. "The militants might have hidden the bomb here to later transfer it and use it somewhere else," said Baloch.
The bomb contained four kilogrammes of ball bearings and nine kilograms of local explosives. The device was connected to a battery and four detonators and was ready to be exploded through a remote control.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 14th, 2014.
The police defused a bomb in Saeedabad on Tuesday, averting another possible act of terrorism in the city within three days of the recovery of a bomb from the police training centre.
According to the Sindh Police bomb disposal squad (BDS), the improvised explosive device weighed around 25 kilogrammes and was hidden in the bushes alongside the road in a steel box in Dadu Goth, located in Baldia Town's sector 17-B. "The bomb was ready to be used," said a BDS expert.
The police said that Ittehad Town police station ASI Tariq was passing through the road in the morning when he saw a suspicious steel box in the bushes and informed the Saeedabad police. The police immediately reached the area and cordoned it off as the BDS inspected the box and then confirmed that a bomb was inside it.
According to West SSP Irfan Baloch, the road is unpaved and is rarely used by vehicles. The area has no police and Rangers picket and law enforcement officials do not patrol it often. Since no important personnel live in the area, the target of the bomb could also not be determined. "The militants might have hidden the bomb here to later transfer it and use it somewhere else," said Baloch.
The bomb contained four kilogrammes of ball bearings and nine kilograms of local explosives. The device was connected to a battery and four detonators and was ready to be exploded through a remote control.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 14th, 2014.