Quetta Terror Attack: At least 60 killed, over 100 injured in Pak police academy attackTop Stories

October 25, 2016 06:02
Quetta Terror Attack: At least 60 killed, over 100 injured in Pak police academy attack

At least 60 people killed and more than 118 injured after the overnight attack on a police training academy in Pakistan's restive Quetta city. Most of the dead were police cadets, government officials said. The recent attack is one of the deadliest strikes in the country this year.

Some 200 trainees were stationed at the facility when the attack took place around 11.10pm last night, officials said. A security source said that, "More than 60 police cadets were killed in the attack while about 115 were injured."

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The home minister of Balochistan province, Sarfaraz Bugti, tweeted that 118 people were injured. Earlier, Bugti said that, the attack had been carried out by three terrorists, cycling back on an earlier estimate by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) of "five to six terrorists".

There were around 700 police cadets and recruits in the college hostel when the attack took place, Bugti said.

The frontier Corps IG, Major General Sher Afghan said that, Security forces had "cleared the college in four hours".

Bugti said the injured people, mostly police cadets and security personnel, had been shifted to the Civil hospital, Bolan Medical College hospital and Military hospital in Quetta. "The condition of some is critical," he said.  

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