An Afghan bomb disposal expert dressed in protective gear from head to toe defused a suicide bomber's
explosive vest as he was still wearing it ahead of an attempted attack in the
province of Jalalabad.
Afghan security forces captured the would-be bomber and
hog-tied him to prevent him from detonating the device. The bomb squad was then
called in to disarm him, the expert took his life in his hands as he approached
the man armed with nothing but a wire cutter.
The scene brings to mind, the Kathryn Bigelow's acclaimed
2008 film The Hurt Locker, which centres on a US bomb disposal unit in Iraq. In
the Oscar-winning movie, the lead character William James is called out to
disarm a bomb vest which has been strapped to the chest of an innocent Iraqi
civilian; however he is unable to defuse it in time and has to abandon the man,
who is killed when the bomb explodes.
In this case, however, the courageous Afghan expert managed
to successfully disarm the device and the man was taken away for questioning
Meanwhile, a series of three bombings yesterday in
neighbouring Pakistan killed at least 49 people.
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