The explosion occurred on Wednesday morning at nationwide police headquarters in Warsaw. Amid media reporters speculating on the incident, the Inside Ministry issued an announcement on Thursday saying {that a} present from Ukraine had exploded, and that Szymczyk and one other individual suffered minor accidents.
However the assertion left many questions unanswered, together with what the current was and who triggered the explosion.
Szymczyk confirmed stories in Polish media that the present had been a grenade launcher.
RMF FM, citing police officers, stated Szymczyk acquired two used anti-tank grenade launchers as presents throughout a latest go to to Ukraine. There have been no different particulars, however the report urged that neither the Ukrainians nor the Poles believed the launchers had any explosive potential. One had been reworked right into a loudspeaker.
“Once I was transferring the used grenade launchers, which have been presents from the Ukrainians, there was an explosion,” Szymczyk advised the broadcaster. He stated the explosion was so highly effective that the drive of its impression pierced the ground and the ceiling.
Szymczyk was initially hospitalized for remark whereas the opposite individual, a civilian worker, didn’t require hospitalization.
Poland is an ally of Ukraine and has provided the neighboring nation varied sorts of assist, together with navy and humanitarian support, since Russia’s full-scale invasion on Feb. 24. Poland additionally has accepted a lot of Ukrainian refugees.