(Peshawar) A bomb attack on a Pakistani counter-terrorism police station on Monday killed at least three people and caused the building to collapse, police said.
“Two bombs exploded” in the police station, “causing the death of at least three people” in Kabal, a town in the Swat valley (northwest), a local police official told AFP. Attaullah Khan.
Seventeen people were also injured. The identity of those killed is not yet known but among those taken to hospital are “many police officials”, he added.
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Injured people are treated in a hospital in Saidu Sharif after the attack.
“The explosions occurred in the police station and caused the building to collapse completely,” an officer added.
Searches for people have begun in the rubble, according to the emergency services.
So far, the attack has not been claimed but since the beginning of the year the Pakistani Taliban have been associated with two attacks against important police stations.