Bomb defused near flyover in Peshawar
- January 23, 2014, 2:18 pm
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PESHAWAR, Jan 23 (Online): The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) on Thursday defused a five-kilogram bomb planted near an under-contrsuction flyover on Peshawar's Charsadda road.
A police source said that the BDS was called in after information of a bomb was received.
Additional contingents of security and rescue teams had also reached the site.
The disposal squad reached the spot and defused the explosive device which was fitted with a timer device and weighed five kilograms, the source added.
The area was cordoned off as a probe into the incident went underway.
Peshawar is the capital city of the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
