At least two police personnel were killed and several others injured in a powerful explosion when a suicide bomber hit his explosive-packed vehicle with a police station in the city Tuesday morning.
According to police sources, the blast destroyed Haveed Police Station. Windowpanes and doors of the houses in the neighborhood were also destroyed.
The bombing was followed by intense gunfire. Law-enforcement agencies cordoned off the entire area and shifted the bodies and the injured to the hospital.
District Police Officer (DPO) Bannu Waqar said only four police personnel were wounded in the blast.