Train bomb defused in Peshawar

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Police defused a bomb on a passenger train in Peshawar on Wednesday, officials said, hours after a blast at a station in Lahore killed four people, including two minor children. A guard found the bomb in a briefcase in the early hours of the morning on the train from Karachi to Peshawar. “The bomb fitted with detonator and batteries was packed with old clothes in a briefcase lying unattended in one of the coaches of the Awam Express,” police officer Mazhar Abbas told AFP. The train guard found the briefcase after a wedding party got down from the train at Attock station, he said.
“The guard checked from the wedding party members and remaining passengers in the coach but nobody claimed its ownership.” A bomb disposal squad was then summoned who defused the device, he said. Mohammed Sajjad, a police investigation official, told AFP the bomb carried 13 kilograms of explosives as well as ball bearings and some nuts and bolts. “Luckily a major tragedy has been averted,” he added.

10 COMMENTS

  1. Weldone.We appreciate and thanx for Allah who saved our costly lives and properties from damage.If the spirit is kept by everyone,InshAH ALLAH WE MAY BE ABLE TO CONTROL THIS FATAL PROBLEM.as a whole and united people we can be able to minimize our damages through these sentiments.

  2. Timely intervention saved so many innocent lives, wonder what these terrorists get by trying such horrible acts.

  3. Thnx to the passenger who raised alarm…we need to increase awareness among the public thru the media on contineuos basis…..this will be definetely beneficial in saving precious lives…..

  4. At least give the poor guy proper bomb disposal gear. I mean he don't even have any gloves on and the body armor doesn't look like it can protect him from a bomb going off in his face while diffusing it. Sad indeed, as this man his put his life at risk without proper gear!

  5. What someone trying to drive the final nail into the dead iron horse! or the railway management trying to scam the insurance company. How much more of this game to watch or why not pack up the railway system totally.

  6. After yhe plane crash people prefered rail, so it may be the transport mafia who may be behind these bombings

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