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.
Train bomb defused in Peshawar
