PESHAWAR, March 5: Police defused two improvised explosive devices in limits of Mattani police station in suburbs of Peshawar on Tuesday.

An official of the rural police said each bomb weighed about 12 kilogram which had been packed in pressure cookers. He said that one bomb had been planted along a road in Yousuf Khel area and the other on track leading to Adezai village.

He said one of the explosives had been defused early in the morning and the other in the afternoon. He said that the apparent target of the bombs was police and volunteers of the Adezai Qaumi Lashkar.

The officials of Mattani police said some local informers had given information to police and thus personnel of the bomb disposal unit were immediately called, who defused the bombs. —Bureau Report

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