3 kg bomb defused in Karachi

Security personnel Wednesday successfully defused a 13-kg bomb in a Karachi locality averting a calamity in Pakistan's largest and populous city, the Dawn online reported.

A Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) team after receiving a tip-off about the presence of the bomb near residential apartments on Khalid Bin Waleed Road recovered it and later succeeded in defusing it.

BDS personnel found the bomb in a fertiliser sack. The bomb was connected with a detonator device and contained two and a half kilograms of explosive material, the report.

Police are examining the explosive material.