Addressing a press conference, District Police Officer Chitral Muhammad Saeed Khan said the two accused arrested in a raid were locals, identified as Juma Khan and Rafiq. He said the accused had admitted their involvement in the attack on the AKHS offices. They had killed two workers of the AKHS and set on fire six vehicles.

Khan said the accused revealed some important information about other activists of the terrorist network involved in the attack. Khan refused to identify the "other people of the network", but agreed to say that they did not belong to Chitral. The killers belonged to a banned militant organisation, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and acquired training in Afghanistan, the DPO said. The police recovered a notebook from the possession of the accused carrying detailed information about the network and its activities.

Quoting the alleged terrorists, Khan said they set ablaze the offices and the vehicles of the AKHS only to "kick them out" of the area but killed the workers too when they resisted. He disclosed that one of the network members, who had killed his colleague in Chitral six months ago after he betrayed people of the organisation and provided information to a secret agency, was also involved in the attack. Before attacking the AKHS offices, the police officer said the accused stayed at a local hotel for planning.