Rocket found near airport

Published March 29, 2007

QUETTA, March 28: Police foiled an attempt to fire rocket at the Turbat Airport by recovering a rocket on Wednesday. A police team rushed to the site after receiving information about the planting of a rocket in the area around the Turbat Airport and after a search recovered the rocket with battery.

"The rocket was about to fire at the runway of the airport," police said, adding that experts of the bomb disposal squad defused the rocket.

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