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Pakistan Police Defuse Passenger Train Bomb
[An Nahar] Pak police defused a bomb on a passenger train in the country's northwest on Wednesday, officials said, hours after a blast at a station in the eastern city of Lahore killed two people.A guard found the bomb in a briefcase in the early hours of the morning on the train from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, the main town in the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, near the Afghan border. "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 Agence La Belle France Presse. 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. Posted by: Fred 2012-04-26 |
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