QUETTA, Aug 19: Jaffar Express escaped a disaster when security forces on Sunday foiled a sabotage attempt by defusing an explosive device planted on the railway tracks near Kolpur.

Railway police said the train was going to Rawalpindi when its driver spotted a suspicious object rigged to the tracks. He stopped the train and informed the security.

Police sources said a bomb weighting 15kgs was defused before Jaffar Express was allowed to resume its journey.