The Chief of Public Security Major-General Tariq Hassan Al Hassan announced on Friday that the Ordinance Disposal Unit defused a 2kg bomb of highly explosive material found near the King Fahad Causeway.
The Chief said that the Operations Room received a call at 04:00pm on Thursday that a suspicious package had been found by a cleaner. The package was discovered near a mosque on the service road on the Bahrain side of the King Fahad Causeway.
The Ordinance Disposal Unit was deployed to the scene and successfully defused the bomb. The Chief said that the Public Prosecutor was notified and that an investigation was launched.
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