Pak cops say defused bomboutside school

The police in Pakistan on Tuesday claimed to have thwarted a terror bid by defusing a five kilogramme pressure cooker bomb planted outside a school here, days after the Taliban attacked a prominent univarsity near here.

The bomb fixed in the cooker was planted outside Foundation Public School in the Bashirabad area of Peshawar city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The bomb disposal squad defused the bomb, a police official said.

Some unknown armed men gave the pressure cooker to a boy to keep it inside the school. The boy, however, kept it in front of the school, he said.

Meanwhile, four improvised explosive devices fastened with electric pylon of high-tension wire in the Paharipura area of Peshawar city were defused by the police.

On January 20, heavily-armed militants stormed the Bacha Khan University in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Charsadda district and opened fire on its students and teachers, resulting in the killing of 21 people.