5kg bomb defused at CTD office in Karachi

Police says bomb was wrapped in shopping bag which had been placed in parking area of CTD’s office


Faraz Khan November 23, 2015
PHOTO: ONLINE/EXPRESS

KARACHI: A five-kilogramme bomb was defused at the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) office in Karachi’s Civil Lines area on Monday.

“We found a five-kg bomb in the car park of our office and it has been defused with the help of the bomb disposal squad,” CTD in-charge Mazhar Mashwani told The Express Tribune.

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Police said the bomb was wrapped in a shopping bag which had been placed in the parking area of the CTD office.

Earlier, the CTD office was evacuated as security institutions received intelligence reports about a bomb attack at the department’s office.

Incident comes an hour after a Dubai-bound private airline’s flight was evacuated at Peshawar’s Bacha Khan Airport over a bomb scare.

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Around 200 passengers were offloaded from the plane of Shaheen Airline on the airport’s runway just minutes before the plane’s take-off.

COMMENTS (7)

bigsaf | 8 years ago | Reply Real glad it was caught in time. It would have been a symbolic and significant blow against counter-terrorism if it went off and took out the CTD office of all places.
tomz | 8 years ago | Reply @Bisma: It not 'refused', it 'defused'. ok, thanks, bye.
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