BAJAUR: Security forces foiled two sabotage bids by seizing an explosive-laden motorcycle and a suicide jacket during intelligence-based operations in two different areas of Bajaur tribal district here on Sunday.
Sources said that a sabotage bid was foiled in Lara Banda area of Khar tehsil when an explosive-laden motorcycle was recovered from a house.
They said that the second bid was thwarted in Bara Kamangra area of Nawagai tehsil by recovering a suicide jacket from a cave.
The sources said that soon after receiving information two teams of security forces and police immediately moved to the localities.
They said that proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was planning to carry out attacks on security forces and other law-enforcement agencies in the region during the Eid days.