PESHAWAR, March 12: An official of the bomb disposal unit on Tuesday died after an improvised explosive device he was defusing in Adezai area on the outskirts Peshawar blew up.

Lal Mast Khan is the second BDU official to die this way over the last six months.

Police said IED was planted by a pathway close to the house of Adezai Qaumi Lashkar’s chief Fazal Malik.

They said the explosive device, which weighed around 14kg and was placed in a pressure cooker, blew up when Mr Lal was defusing it without wearing safety gears.

Police said the explosion tore the BDU official’s body into pieces.

“We were unable to collect parts of his body because it was torn apart,” an official said.

Police said Tuesday’s was the fourth IED planted by militants in the area over four weeks and that three were successfully defused.

Mr Mast Khan was the second BDU official to lose life defusing an IED during the lst six months in Peshawar.

Earlier, BDU Inspector Hukum Khan was killed after the improvised explosive device he was trying to defuse blew up by the roadside in the restive Shaikhan area of Peshawar on Sept 29, 2012.