Blast in police station injures 14 people in NW Pakistan
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, April 26, IRNA -- An explosion Monday rocked a police station in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar injuring 14 people, including policemen, TV channels here reported.
Preliminary reports suggest that the blast took place at the arms depot of the police station at roadside Gulbahar locality of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Province.
Police chief, Liaquat Ali Khan, said that the blast may have caused by gas in the bathroom gutters or electric short circuit. He said experts are of the view that the blast was not caused by arms or explosives as there had been no explosives inside the police station.
The police chief also said that no one can throw explosives from outside as the police station and its rooms were sealed. He said the injured men are in stable condition.
Witnesses said that blaze erupted in the upper portion of the police station. The blast damaged back side of the heavily-guarded two-story police station, they said. All the police personnel evacuated the police station after the blast.
Small blasts were heard after the first bug blasts which were believed to be caused due to the explosives in the arms depot in the police station.
TV channels reported there is possibility that someone had thrown grenades inside the police station. Dawn TV reported that a police control room inside the police station stop functioning after the blast.
Police and private rescue teams arrived at the seen and transferred the injured policemen and civilians to local hospitals.
Fire fighters were also called out to extinguish the blaze. TV footage showed tick smoke coming out of the two-storied building.
A large number of armed policemen closed the main gate of the police station and kept the journalists and camerapersons away from the building.
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