Happened on 28-07-2013
QUETTA: An alleged suicide bomber was killed by residents of Hazara Town in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan on Saturday.
He said residents tried to stop the suspected bomber from approaching a mosque they were guarding but he refused to do so. “Residents then fired and killed him on the spot,” he said.
Mehmood said a suicide jacket and a hand grenade were recovered from his possession.
“A major terrorist attack was averted,” he claimed.
Another police official, DIG Operations Fayyaz Sumbal, said the bomber, who had strapped explosives around his body, could not explode himself because of timely action by the volunteers.
“One of the volunteers hit the bomber's head with a brick while another opened fire on him, killing him on the spot,” Sumbul told a foreign news agency.