ISLAMABAD, April 25 (Xinhua) — The death toll from Monday’s twin explosions in a police station in Pakistan’s Swat district of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province rose to 17 on Tuesday, with at least 70 others injured, health and police officials said.
Confirming the casualties, KP Health Secretary Mahmood Aslam Wazir told Xinhua that the death toll increased after several injured succumbed to the