JACOBABAD: Bomb found in Jacobabad

Published December 14, 2005

JACOBABAD, Dec 13: The city police found a bomb at the main Tanga stand near the capital cinema on Tuesday. It was taken to police station ground and a bomb disposal squad was called from Sukkur. The team defused the bomb. The head of the team, Malik Tahir, told reporters that it was a Russian-made bomb and weighed three pounds. Had it exploded, it could have hit area of 100-meter radius, he said.

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