RAWALPINDI, April 17: An Afghan woman created panic at the Islamabad International Airport on Thursday when she claimed that she was carrying a time bomb in her belly, official sources said.

Hifza Ghafari, who was about to board flight PK-251 for Kabul, was immediately taken into custody by the ASF staff, who once again carried out a security check, but failed to detect any bomb.

The airport authorities quoted the woman as saying that a bomb had been placed in her belly by her husband after a surgery. The woman was handed over to the local police for further investigations.

When Ms Ghafari was brought to a local hospital for X-Ray, she started making a hue and cry.

“The bomb will blow up inside my belly, please help me,” she was heard crying in the hospital.

According to the doctors at RGH, no bomb had been detected inside the woman’s body. However, she has been kept under observation for the next 24 hours.

Meanwhile, a woman police officer, who was attending the Afghan woman, told Dawn: “The woman seems to be in distress due to domestic problems. Infact, she was afraid of her husband who had quarrelled with her, and perhaps threatened to kill her. She was fearing that her husband would kill her with a bomb, but the ASF people misunderstood the woman and handed her over to the police.”