SWAT: The Inspector General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police has ruled out terrorism from the twin blasts on the CTD police station in Swat, ARY News reported on Tuesday.
As per details, the KP IG said that the blast took place when the explosives inside the police station exploded. He said that an investigation to find out the negligence is underway.
A two-member fact-finding committee comprised of the Interior Secretary and additional IG special branch has been constituted on the CTD police station attack in Swat.
Earlier, at least 18 people were martyred including 13 policemen and 70 others including a lady police official sustained injuries earlier in twin bomb blasts inside a Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) police station in Swat’s Kabal town.
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Emergency was imposed in all hospitals and rescue teams also reached the site and wounded persons were shifted to a local hospital. The building of the police station was destroyed in the incident.
Condemnations poured in across the country following the twin bomb blasts, reacting over the bomb blast inside the police line mosque in Peshawar, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the suicide attack on CTD police station in Swat. He said the nation is deeply grieved over the martyrdom of police officials.
PTI chairman Imran Khan took to Twitter and condemned the bomb blast. He expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the blast at the Kabal police station in Swat.
