24 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
At least eight police officers have died and 57 people have been injured after an explosion described as a terrorist attack at a Kabal police station, in the Swat region, in the Pakistani province of Jíber Pajtunjua (northwest).
The spokeswoman for the emergency services, Ayesha Khan, has confirmed the death toll from the explosion, which occurred around 8:00 p.m. (local time) and has 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 in the complex, which housed, in addition to the police station, a mosque and an anti-terrorism department.
The Pakistani Interior Minister, Rana Sanaulá, has strongly condemned the explosion and has sent condolences to the relatives, friends and acquaintances of the victims. Authorities have already ordered an investigation into what happened.
At the moment, the explosion has not been claimed by any terrorist group, although Tehrik and Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Pakistani Taliban, frequently operate in the area against police and police stations.
The TTP group, which differs from the Afghan Taliban in organizational matters but follows the same rigorous 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.
