Regional
Sixteen killed after blasts rock Pakistani anti-terror office
Sixteen people were killed and sixty others injured in two bomb blasts in Counter Terrorism Department Police station in Kabal area of Swat Monday night, Radio Pakistan reported.
According to Rescue 1122 Swat, the injured have been shifted to Distract Headquarters Hospital Saidu Sharif Swat.
The blast intensity destroyed the entire building of CTD police station.
Emergency has been imposed in all major hospitals of Swat.
Provincial police said in a statement issued later that ammunition caught fire, “most probably due to an electric short-circuit. No evidence of an attack from outside has been established so far.”
Pakistani police and military have got a significant presence of their counter-terrorism staff in the valley, which has been prone to the insurgency.
Other aspects of the explosions are being investigated, Provincial police said.
Most of those killed in the blasts were police counter-terrorism officers, Hayat said, adding that a woman and her child who were passing by the building were also killed.