LAKKI MARWAT: The police on Tuesday claimed to have defused an indigenously made bomb in Bannu while a terrorist attack on a police station was foiled in Karak district.

Police officials said that unknown miscreants had planted a homemade explosive device at Shandi Adda in the limits of cantonment police station. They said the police immediately reached the place when local people spotted some suspected material and informed them.

They said that terrorists had planted the explosive with ball bearings, detonating cord and other equipment in a plastic bucket. “The experts of bomb disposal unit were called to defuse the device,” they maintained.

They said that the bomb weighed 5 kgs and would have caused disaster had it exploded.

Separately, police foiled a midnight militant attack on a police station in Banda Daud Shah area of Karak district. A police official said that it was a two-pronged attack and the assailants used light and heavy weapons in a bid to enter the police station building.

He said the policemen deployed there were fully alert and they retaliated effectively. “An effective response by the cops left the attackers with no option but to flee the area,” he claimed, saying that the station house officer and all other policemen remained safe in the attack.

Published in Dawn, February 26th, 2025