Sagar: A daring police cop of Madhy Pardesh put his life on the line and ran with a 10kg bomb to save the lives of as many as 400 children. Abhishek Patel, a head constable in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, with his extraordinary courage proved that one doesn’t need superpowers to save the world.
Keeping this attitude in mind, Patel tucked a 10kg bomb in his arms and sprinted 1km in a direction away from the residential areas. “My only objective was to take it away as far from the children as possible. Far away from all residential areas,” Patel reportedly said while trying to catch his breath after his nonstop run.
The unexplored artillery shell was found on Friday morning in a school in Sagar’s Chitora village. The police too responded swiftly after an unknown source informed them of this incident.
According to the report published in a News Paper, Ajay Kumar, school’s senior teacher said “Police saw the bomb and immediately asked us to close for the day, almost two hours early.
We asked the students to leave at once.” Amid all the tension with so many lives at stake, Patel came forward picked the bomb and started running. After coming back, Patel explained that he was a part of a police drill a few months ago, where a similar bomb was spotted and they had to run with it.
He further added, “Had it exploded, we were told, it would have damaged a radius of 500 meters. I was afraid it would blow up and decided to take it as far away as possible.”
While the entire incident looks like it was taken out directly from an action movie, Patel’s efforts are truly commendable. In fact, there are many who are drawing parallels between this incident and Tom Hank’s ‘Forrest Gump’.
However, the shell hasn’t been defused yet and it’s still unkown how a bomb that big a size managed to make its way into a school. The case is being investigated. Patel’s courage will be acknowledged with a reward of Rs. 50,000.
