BANNU, Dec 14: A sabotage attempt to blow up a local bridge was foiled by the local police.

The Bannu police defused a remote controlled bomb which had been planted by unknown miscreants under the bridge. The police, after getting information that suspected material had been kept under the Shen Kundai Pull on Miramshah-Bannu road, rushed to the site and saved the bridge from destruction.

According to police, it was a hundred-kilogram heavy time bomb fitted in two pressure cookers with a detonator. The police registered FIR against unidentified miscreants and started investigations.—Correspondent

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