Street children discover ticking bomb under bus

Associated Press in Dhaka
Monday December 5, 2005
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Police said yesterday that two street children scavenging for food had found a ticking time bomb under a bus in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, where at least 13 people have been killed and dozens wounded over the last week in attacks by suspected Islamists.

The boys found the 3kg (7lb) bomb, hidden inside a paper box, in Gabtoli terminal late on Saturday and alerted a traffic police officer who buried it in sand, a police official said. It was later defused.