Explosive device found near air force base in Punjab
By IANSMonday, January 25, 2010
CHANDIGARH - A explosive device was found near Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Halwara base in Punjab’s Jagraon town Monday, two days after two grenades were discovered near an IAF station near Zirakpur town, police said.
“This bomb-like object was placed in a Maruti car with a Haryana registration number and abandoned on the road. We have found urea, petrol, detonator type wire and a Chinese mobile phone inside the car,” Jaswinder Singh, investigating officer of the case, told IANS.
“From the preliminary investigation, it seems that somebody had tried to explode this bomb,” he said, adding forensic experts had been called.
Jagraon town is around 100 km from Chandigarh. Punjab Police also found two grenades near the Highground IAF station in Zirakpur, about 10 km from Chandigarh, Saturday.
A bomb was also discovered Jan 18 outside a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) bottling plant in a town in Patiala district. It was defused by the bomb disposal squad of Punjab Armed Police (PAP).
