At least eight policemen have been killed and 57 people injured following an explosion described as a terrorist attack at a police station in Kabal, in the Swat region of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (northwest).
The spokeswoman for the emergency services, Ayesha Khan, confirmed the number of victims of the explosion, which occurred at around 8 p.m. (local time) and reported that there are at least three civilians among the injured, according to the newspaper ‘Dawn’.
The explosion, which has put nearby hospitals on alert, has caused the collapse of at least three buildings of the complex, which housed in addition to the police station, a mosque and a department of counter-terrorism.
Pakistani Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has strongly condemned the blast and sent condolences to the families, friends and acquaintances of the victims. The authorities have already ordered an investigation into the incident.
For the moment, the explosion has not been claimed by any terrorist group, although Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Pakistani Taliban, frequently operate in the area against police and police stations.
The TTP, which differs from the Afghan Taliban in organizational matters but follows the same rigorist interpretation of Sunni Islam, brings together more than a dozen Islamist militant groups operating in Pakistan, where they have killed some 70,000 people in two decades of violence.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
