Poonch: Bomb disposal squads have defused a live grenade found on the rooftop of a government building inPir Panchal region’s Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Friday.
The police suspected that someone had thrown the grenade and fled, but it did not explode.
“My kids kept telling me that something was on the terrace and when I went to check, I saw that an object was lying in the corner. My younger son said that he found the object suspicious,” a resident of Gulfam told reporters here.
“I thought it belonged to the electricity department and I called them because they were working here in the daytime. When he checked, he asked me to tell the security guard because the object did not belong to him,” the woman added.
The security guard told them that it was a bomb and they needed to inform the police, she said.
A deputy superintendent of police arrived here with a team and took away the bomb within half an hour, she added.