Rocket defused in Kohat

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The bomb disposal squad defused on Tuesday a rocket and 17 hand grenades, hurled by militants at two different police stations in the city on Monday night.

Police said that they found 17 hand grenades near Cantt police station on Tuesday morning. Similarly a rocket fired by militants at City police station failed to explode and was later defused by the bomb disposal squad in the small hours of Tuesday. The hand grenades were also destroyed by the bomb disposal squad.

Meanwhile, officials of Cantt, City and Jungle Khel police stations arrested six suspected militants during search operations and recovered ammunition including hand grenades and pistols from their possession.

The arrested persons were identified as Usman, Qasim Khan, Tanveer, Gul Jamal and Roshan Khan. Two hand grenades, six pistols and 1,000 cartridges were recovered from their possession.

They were handed over to special investigation team for interrogation after registration of cases against them in the respective police stations.