An explosion has rocked Poland’s police headquarters in Warsaw, the country’s Interior Ministry reported on Thursday. The blast went off in a room adjacent to the cabinet of the Commander-in-Chief of the Police, General Jaroslaw Szymczyk, with the official sustaining minor injuries.
The incident occurred at the HQ on Wednesday, with the commander remaining hospitalized “for observation.” A civilian employee at the HQ also received minor injuries in the blast but did not require hospitalization. The interior ministry stressed that the explosive device was a ‘gift’ Szymczyk had received during a recent visit to Ukraine.
“The item was a gift from one of the heads of the Ukrainian services,” the ministry said, without elaborating on the nature of the package or naming the Ukrainian official who’d given it to Szymczyk.