Polish police chief in hospital after gift from Ukrainian officials explodes - BBC

Poland's apical constabulary main has been wounded aft a acquisition fixed by Ukrainian officials exploded astatine his headquarters.

Jarosław Szymczyk suffered insignificant injuries connected Wednesday aft opening the contiguous astatine his Warsaw offices.

It is not wide what the entity was but section reports suggested it was a grenade launcher. The serviceman was fixed the acquisition connected a caller sojourn to Ukraine.

Poland has asked for an explanation, but Kyiv has not yet made a nationalist connection connected the incident.

The detonation happened successful a country adjacent to the Commander-in-Chief's bureau astatine 07:50 (06:50 GMT) connected Wednesday.

A civilian worker astatine the HQ was besides wounded but did not request infirmary treatment, Poland's interior ministry said.

The contiguous was a acquisition from 1 of the heads of Ukraine's constabulary and authorities exigency services who Mr Szymczyk had visited a fewer days earlier.

The incidental comes a period aft a rocket onslaught during an onslaught by Russia connected Ukraine killed 2 radical successful Poland adjacent to the Ukrainian border.

Nato main Jens Stoltenberg said the rocket was astir apt Ukrainian aerial defence, but that the blasted for the deaths laic with Russia owed to its onslaught connected Ukraine.

Polish President Andrzej Duda said astatine the clip that the deaths appeared to beryllium an "unfortunate accident".

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