(VOI) -- A bomb squad defused 40 kg of the highly explosive C4 on a road in northeastern Nassiriya, the media spokesman for the Thi-Qar police said on Monday. "The forces defused the bomb, planted by unknown gunmen on the road between Sabd Dakhiel district, northeastern of Nassiriya, and the center of the province," Major Naser al-Majedi told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "The bomb was defused by a bomb expert," he added.