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Taliban militants storm Pak varsity; 25 killed
Heavily-armed Taliban suicide attackers on Wednesday stormed a prestigious university and opened indiscriminate fire on students and teachers, killing at least 25 people and wounding 50 others in Pakistan’s restive northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
​Peshawar: Heavily-armed Taliban suicide attackers on Wednesday stormed a prestigious university and opened indiscriminate fire on students and teachers, killing at least 25 people and wounding 50 others in Pakistan’s restive northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The gunmen entered the Bacha Khan University named after iconic leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan alias Baacha Khan in Charsadda, 50 km southwest of Peshawar, and opened fire on students and teachers in classrooms and hostels, police said.
Blasts and heavy gunfire were heard from inside the campus where a poetic symposium was in progress to mark the death anniversary of Baacha Khan who died on January 20, 1988.Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Party leader and provincial lawmaker Shaukat Yousafzai said 25 people, including a professor, were killed and around 50 others injured in the terrorist attack on the university.
The injured were shifted to hospital. An emergency has been declared in all hospitals in the town. All schools have been closed in the area. The attack comes a little over a year after Taliban militants massacred over 150 people, mostly students, in an assault on an army-run school in Peshawar in December 2014.
