Pakistani police said Tuesday the twin blasts that struck a counterterrorism facility in the country's northwest and killed 13 people the previous day were caused by electrical shorts and not a terror attack, as initially suggested.
The short circuits occurred on Monday at a munition warehouse within the facility in Swat, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. Along with those killed, more than 50 people, mostly police officers, were wounded when the shorts ignited explosions, seconds apart.
