At least eight policemen had been killed and 57 others had been injured in a ‘suicide assault’ in (*6*) Swat valley, Dawn reported on Monday. The assault passed off on the (*29*) police station in Swat valley. A police official injured in the incident advised the day by day that the assault occurred round 8:20 pm contained in the police station premises which additionally housed the Counter Terrorism Department. He mentioned three buildings “collapsed” because of the blast, including {that a} fireplace additionally erupted quickly after.
The official mentioned he was in the kitchen together with different officers when the blast passed off, including that he heard two explosions. The police mentioned that a number of individuals had been buried beneath the rubble whereas the injured had been being rushed to Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital. An emergency was declared in any respect close by hospitals.
GeoTV reported that at the least 10 individuals, together with eight policemen, had been killed in the assault. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Akhtar Hayat Khan mentioned safety officers had been on “excessive alert” all through the province. Earlier, District Police Officer Shafi Ullah Gandapur (DPO) mentioned there have been two blasts contained in the station, which destroyed the constructing.
CTD DIG Khalid Sohail mentioned the constructing’s collapse triggered an influence outage, the extent of which is but to be decided. He additional mentioned the constructing that collapsed was an previous one whereas most workplaces and personnel had been positioned in a more recent constructing. The reason for the blasts was not but identified. “Ammunition and mortar shells had been stored contained in the station. It is feasible that they had been behind the explosions. It is also a suicide assault,” the DIG mentioned.
