KARACHI: A bomb weighing 13 kilograms was defused near Khalid Bin Waleed road in Karachi’s PECHS area on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.

On receiving a tip-off about the presence of a bomb near residential apartments on Khalid Bin Waleed Road, Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) team personnel were dispatched.

BDS personnel discovered the bomb in a fertilizer sack.

The bomb was connected with a detonator device and contained two and a half kilograms of explosive material.

Police took the explosive material into custody to conduct examination.

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