The number of people injured in Friday morning's explosion at a police station in northern Tajikistan has risen to 30, with one police officer killed and one unaccounted for, police said.

Earlier reports said 25 people were injured when a GAZ-24 car exploded after crashing into the main building in the yard of a police station in the Central Asian country's second largest city of Khujand.

The blast, which occurred at about 8:10 a.m. (03:10 GMT), completely destroyed the right section of the building housing the local organized crime department, the Tajik Interior Ministry said.

There was no information on the driver involved in the suicide car bombing.

DUSHANBE, September 3 (RIA Novosti)