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Explosion at Polish police headquarters caused by grenade launcher from Ukraine, police chief says | World News



He said the explosion at the Polish police chief’s office was caused by a grenade launcher – a weapon that was once a gift from Ukraine.

An explosion at police headquarters in Warsaw on Wednesday sent police chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk to hospital.

After the incident, Mr Szymczyk told private broadcaster RMF FM that he had received two weapons as a gift from Ukraine.

“When I was moving used grenade launchers, which were gifts from the Ukrainians, there was an explosion,” Mr. Szymczyk told RMF FM.

He said he was moving the launchers into an upright position at the time.

RMF cited a source from a Polish delegation visiting Ukraine as saying Mr Szymczyk had received two launchers from officials as a gift during a visit to the police and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

Officials assured the Polish delegation that the launchers were not loaded and that the delegation brought them back to Warsaw by car before leaving them in the back room of Szymczyk’s office, the source said.

Sky News was unable to immediately confirm Mr. Szymczyk’s version of events.

Mr Szymczyk has been criticized over the incident, with commentators experienced in the security services quoted by Polish media saying that military equipment should not be brought into Poland from outside the European Union. Europe or put in the office.

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