Police in Pakistan said yesterday they defused a bomb the previous night outside a packed shopping centre where the latest Harry Potter book was scheduled to be launched. "Police foiled an attempt to blow up a car bomb by remote control outside the Pak Towers and defused 10kg of explosives in a stolen car," said Karachi police investigation chief Manzoor Mughal. "Had it exploded it would have caused a huge loss of lives."
The launch of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was postponed until later in the day. "There were several hundred people inside Pak Towers at the time we received the call from an unknown person that a bomb was about to explode," Mughal said.| Think of it... all the cute li'l kiddies in pieces, all the wailing relatives, all the teevee cameras. |
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