LAKKI MARWAT: Police averted a tragedy by defusing two indigenously-made bombs near an army camp in Shah Hasankhel area here on Thursday.

A police official said that the terrorists had used cold drink bottles to make improvised explosive devices to target security personnel.

“The IEDs were planted in a rainwater course near the base camp of Pakistan army,” maintained the official, adding that SHO Ayaz Khan along with a police party immediately reached the rural locality when he received information about the terror bid.

He said that bomb experts were called out to defuse the bombs.

Published in Dawn, August 22th, 2025