At least 13 killed after two explosions rocked police workplace in northwest Pakistan on Monday.

Peshawar:

Two explosions in a counter-terrorism ammunition depot in northwest Pakistan killed not less than 13 individuals and wounded over 50 on Monday, police mentioned.

Provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat mentioned the explosions rocked the counter-terrorism workplace in northwestern Swat valley, which was beforehand lengthy managed by Islamist militants earlier than they had been flushed out in a navy operation in 2009.

His spokesman mentioned in a press release issued later that ammunition caught hearth, “most probably due to an electric short-circuit. No evidence of an attack from outside has been established so far.”

Pakistani police and navy have gotten a major presence of their counter-terrorism employees within the valley, which has been vulnerable to the insurgency.

The militants additionally shot at and wounded Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai in 2012 within the scenic valley, the birthplace of Mullah Fazlullah, the previous chief of the Pakistani Taliban, who was killed in an air strike in neighbouring Afghanistan in 2018.

Other points of the explosions are being investigated, the spokesman mentioned.

Most of these killed within the blasts had been police counter-terrorism officers, Hayat mentioned, including {that a} lady and her little one who had been passing by the constructing had been additionally killed.

The regional chief of the counter-terrorism division Sohail Khalid instructed reporters that the explosions didn’t seem like a suicide assault or different act of terrorism.

“There was a store where we had a huge quantity of weapons, and until now we believe that there might have some blast in it due to some carelessness” he mentioned, including, “We are keeping all our options open.”

A hospital administration mentioned it obtained a number of wounded individuals for remedy, a few of them in vital situation.

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