Turkish bomb disposal experts have defused a 4 kg bomb found at a bar next to an airbase in southern Turkey used by U.S. forces, the CNN Turk Web site and other media said on Wednesday. It said the home-made explosives, studded with nails and containing powdered potassium, were found in the garden at the entrance to the bar near the Incirlik Air Base. Workers at the bar spotted the package containing the explosives on Tuesday night and informed paramilitary police who cleared the premises. They called police bomb disposal experts who defused the bomb and took it to a laboratory for examination. State-run Anatolian news agency said that, based on eyewitness accounts, police are looking for a man and a woman in connection with the explosives. Police were not immediately available for comment. |