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| Explosives recovered in Charsadda |
| 2015-05-18 |
| [DAWN] CHARSADDA: The local police thwarted a terror bid and seized a 14-kilogram bomb, boom jacket and other explosives during a search operation in Prang area here on Saturday. District Police Officer Shafiullah Khan told journalists that they acted on a tip-off and recovered the kaboom which had been hidden under a bridge on the Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... River in the district. He said that the seizure included a 14-kg bomb, a boom jacket, 42 dynamites, 28 device cells, 74 device batteries and other material that could be used in terrorist activities. The DPO said that DIG Saeed Wazir had alerted the district police to increase security and search and strike operations after receiving information that faceless myrmidons were planning to carry out a sabotage activity in Charsadda. He said that police had set up checkposts along the roads to check vehicles coming and going out of the district. The official said that police received information that some suspicious items were lying under the bridge on the Swat River. Police and bomb disposal squad reached there and recovered the explosives. Police registered the case and started investigation. |
| Posted by:Fred |