14 policemen injured in Mansehra jail bomb blast

Mansehra (Pakistan), Sep. 14 (ANI): At least 14 policemen were injured, three of them critically, in a remote control bomb blast near Central Jail here on Monday.

The Nation quoted the District Police Officer Akhtar Hayat Khan Gandapur, as saying that the bomb placed alongside the road, went off when a police van was passing by.

He said that van was carrying prisoners from the Central Jail to Abbottabad for the hearing of cases.

The injured were evacuated to District Headquarters Hospital Mansehra where emergency has been declared. The three critically injured policemen were shifted to Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad. (ANI)