Suspicious looking pressure cooker bomb found in Kapilvastu

By Janu Pandey, Kapilvastu, May 31: A suspicious pressure cooker bomb has been found in Pakadi, Mayadevi Rural Municipality-1, Kapilvastu District.

Police reached the spot after the cooker, which was wrapped in wire and left on the roadside in front of the Agricultural Development Bank, appeared suspicious.

Chief of the District Police Office, Kapilvastu, Superintendent of Police (SP) Niranjan Dutta Bhatta, said that preparations are underway to dispose of the suspicious object. 

Police said that a bomb disposal team of the Nepal Army has been deployed at the incident site.

A leaflet has been attached to the suspicious-looking pressure cooker with a warning, "Brokers, land looters, if you don't change your ways, this could happen to your house too."