At least 12 human beings were killed in explosions at a counter-terrorism workplace in north-west Pakistan, officers say. Police stated that there may be no proof of an assault and that it can were because of an electrical fault igniting ammunition withinside the centre.
Most of the useless are police officers. The explosion took place withinside the Swat valley, which became managed with the aid of using Islamist militants earlier than they had been compelled out in 2009. More than forty human beings had been injured and homes have collapsed.
A spokesman for provincial police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which neighbours Afghanistan, stated that ammunition stuck fire, “maximum probable because of an electric powered short-circuit”. “No proof of an assault from out of doors has been installed so far.”
The Pakistani Taliban institution has accomplished numerous assaults concentrated on protection forces in current months, however has now no longer claimed involvement in those explosions. The local leader of the counter-terrorism branch Sohail Khalid informed Reuters that the explosions did now no longer seem like an act of terrorism.
“There became a shop in which we had a large amount of weapons, and till now we consider that there may have a few blast in it because of a few carelessness” he stated. “We are preserving all our alternatives open.” Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to start with referred to as the blasts a “suicide assault”, however later tweeted that that “the character of the blast is being investigated”.
Pakistani counter-terrorist forces keep a robust presence withinside the valley, which has been liable to insurgency. In 2012, militants additionally shot and wounded Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai withinside the valley.