The Rawalpindi-bound Jaffar Express on Sunday averted a catastrophe after its driver stopped the train just short of a bomb. Police said that after leaving Quetta, the train was on its way near Kolpur when the driver of the locomotive saw a suspected item attached to the railway track. “The driver immediately stopped the train and informed Pakistan Railways officials,” police said, adding that a team of bomb disposal squad reached the site. After examination, the team found out that the suspicious item was an improvised explosive device (IED) fitted with the railway track to target the train.
