QUETTA: Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) personnel defused a bomb, weighing eight kilograms, in Quetta's Saeed Ahmed Khan Road on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.

Police sources said that two mortar bombs were found, wired up together and connected to a detonator, in a trash bin located on Saeed Ahmed Khan Road in central Quetta.

Area residents had informed the security personnel of the presence of explosives after which the BDS was called in.

The disposal squad personnel reached the site and defused the bomb.

Vehicular traffic on Saeed Ahmed Khan Road was blocked and suspended while the bomb was defused.

BDS officials later said that the eight kilogram bomb would have caused a great amount of damage had it detonated.