PESHAWAR:�A seemingly accidental blast that Pakistani police blamed on toilet gases damaged a police station in the city of Peshawar on Monday, injuring at least five people.A police official initially said the blast occurred in a room used to store ammunition in the station in the middle-class neighbourhood of Gulbahar in the main city in northwest region of Pakistan.But the Peshawar police chief later told incredulous reporters on television that dodgy sewers were responsible for the collapse of one room and the partial damage of two others.Television footage showed civilians and policemen carrying injured people out on stretchers and ambulances rushing to the scene.Peshawar city police chief Liaqat Ali blamed the blast on gases in the toilets .Asked if gases could be strong enough to demolish two rooms of a police station, he insisted: It happens in many cases. Local administration official Muhammad Siraj Khan told AFP that a natural gas leak in the sewers within the police station caused the blast. The blast triggered a fire in a nearby room which had electricity controls, he said. Five people, including four policemen and one prisoner, were injured, he added.
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