ISLAMABAD: At least two people were injured in powerful explosions at an ammunition depot in Sihala on Monday morning.
The blast was so powerful that it was heard far and wide. Relief and rescue teams have been dispatched for relief efforts.
According to preliminary reports, the blast was caused by a technical glitch, including a short circuit.
The blast took place in an arms and ammunition depot near Islamabad’s Sihala area.
Several security officials were wounded in the explosion, police told DawnNews.
Rescue officials were on their way to the site of the incident.
The cause of the blast was not immediately known.
Sihala houses a police academy which had been attacked by militants in the past.
“It’s an army area. They have an arms depot there, and there
was blast in that,” Mohammad Iqbal, a police official in Sahala,
a neighbourhood near Islamabad told AFP. “Two to three people were
wounded,” he added.
Police and rescue teams have been dispatched to the area. Fire brigades from Islamabad and Rawalpindi have been rushed to the site.
The building where the arms depot is located has collapsed due to the intensity of the blast.
The ammunition depot is on the outskirts of Islamabad, in an area at the boundary of Rawalpindi. It is located near the Kakul military academy near Abbottabad.
