PESHAWAR: Police on Monday defused three improvised explosive devices in the limits of Mattani and Regi police stations, sources said.

They said one of the IEDs weighed around 10 kilograms and could have caused extensive damage in case it were blown up.

A senior police official told Dawn that police recovered a 10 kilogram remote controlled device in the Regi area of the city in the limits of Nasir Bagh police station. He said the explosives were packed in the IED planted by the roadside.

The official said Bomb Disposal Unit safely defused the device, adding a convoy of the Frontier Corps passing through the area was the possible target of the IED. However, an official at the Nasir Bagh police station expressed his ignorance about defusing of the IED.

The senior police official said two IEDs were recovered from the limits of Mattani police station. “Mortar shells were improvised in both IEDs,” the official said, adding that both devices were safely defused.

Meanwhile, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday claimed to have arrested a terrorist belonging to a banned outfit from the limits of Badbher police station.

A statement issued here said that the suspected terrorist identified as Amal Gul, resident of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, was involved in attacks on members of local peace committee in the area.

In one of the attacks back in 2007 masterminded by the terrorist, two members of a local peace committee, Samar Gul and Malik Jan, were killed, while two others were injured.

The statement said that the accused was shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation.

Published in Dawn August 18th, 2015

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