ISLAMABAD — Eight people were injured in an explosion inside a police station in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday night, rescuers said.
The accident happened in Swabi district of the province where a fire broke out prior to the explosion, severely damaging a room in the police station and reducing it to rubble, Bilal Faizi, spokesperson of the state-owned rescue organization Rescue 1122, told Xinhua.
He said that the fire erupted inside the room where explosive materials, recovered from terrorists during separate operations, were stored.
The fire was apparently caused by a short circuit, ultimately triggering the explosion, Faizi said.
The injured people have been shifted to a nearby hospital, where two of them were in critical condition, he added.
An investigation into the accident was underway.
XINHUA