SWAT: The authorities believe a short circuit in the ammunition storage caused the two explosions at a Swat Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) police station.
In the preliminary investigative report following the CTD police station blast in Swat’s Kabal a day earlier, the police claimed “no evidence of an attack from outside.”
The authorities reported at least 16 deaths and around 40 injuries from the incident.
The police report revealed that a short circuit in the armoury triggered the blast.
CTD Dig Khalid Sohail told journalists that incompetence caused munitions fires. He said it happened in the CTD’s old office.
He denied that the explosions were terrorist assaults or suicide bombings.
“There was a store where we had a huge quantity of weapons, and until now we believe that there might have been some blast in it due to carelessness,” he said.
Sohail stated shock waves triggered “the complete collapse of the building”.
The explosion toppled surrounding mosques, residences, school walls, and roofs, thus debris removed.
Four civilians and 12 cops died. 10 of the 40 injured are critical, according to the hospital.
Police sources stated a two-person group was investigating the CTD police station munitions blasts. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home Secretary Abid Majeed and Special Branch deputy inspector general are members.
“A series of two to three bomb explosions occurred,” KP Police Inspector General Akhtar Hayat Gandapur stated after the blast. “The majority of victims” were officers, he said.
A body was stretchered from the rubble as little fires burned in the darkness.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called Monday’s blasts a “suicide attack” on Twitter.
“Our police has been the first line of defence against terrorism,” he tweeted.
“The nature of the blast is being investigated” was his late-night tweet.
