BANNU: Police in Bannu defused three low-intensity bombs planted in different areas in the limits of the city’s Miryan police station on Wednesday foiling a terrorist attack.

On a tip off that unidentified men had planted bombs at three locations in the city, police rushed to the sites along with a bomb disposal squad and defused all three bombs.

The bombs had been planted at a school, at the Hujra of Sardar Yusuf Khan and by a roadside.

Had the bombs gone off, they would have brought massive loss of life and property, police said.

Moreover, an investigation was initiated into the matter.

The northwestern town of Bannu, which stands at the gateway to Waziristan, is 150 kilometres southwest of Peshawar, capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The town has also witnessed a number of attacks and was the scene of a massive jail break in April 2012 during which 384 prisoners escaped from the Bannu central prison.