NAROWAL: The bomb disposal squad of the civil defence department on Tuesday defused an India-made anti-tank mine recovered from Nullah Dek in Zafarwal area.

According to District Civil Defence Officer Muhammad Asim Wahla, labourers digging out sand from the Nullah Dek found the 14-pound anti-tank mine (ATM) and informed Zafarwal police about the find which they took in their custody.

He said the police called the civil defence’s bomb disposal squad (BDS) that defused the ATM that was made in India.

Nullah Dek enters Pakistan’s territory from India in Tehsil Zafarwal, in Narowal district.

The labourers, Akmal and Rafaqat Ali, who found the ATM said that such mines were sometimes found in the Dek after being pushed by the strong water currents of the nullah from Indian side.

Published in Dawn, July 10th, 2019

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