Post by Logan on Jan 20, 2016 2:55:46 GMT -6
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 19 people were killed and several wounded when militants attacked a university campus in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, a senior government official said.
Gunmen scaled the rear walls of Bacha Khan University in the town of Charsadda, just outside the city of Peshawar, around 9:30 a.m., firing into the air, witnesses said.
The dead included two female students, a senior faculty member and four guards, said Fakhr-i-Alam, the senior government official. A Pakistani military spokesman, Lt. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa, has said that at least four attackers were killed in exchanges of fire with the security forces. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault.
Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, condemned the attack, which had “reportedly resulted into the loss of precious human lives and injured many others,” according to an official statement.
Continued at www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/world/asia/bacha-khan-university-attack-charsadda.html?_r=0 .
Gunmen scaled the rear walls of Bacha Khan University in the town of Charsadda, just outside the city of Peshawar, around 9:30 a.m., firing into the air, witnesses said.
The dead included two female students, a senior faculty member and four guards, said Fakhr-i-Alam, the senior government official. A Pakistani military spokesman, Lt. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa, has said that at least four attackers were killed in exchanges of fire with the security forces. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault.
Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, condemned the attack, which had “reportedly resulted into the loss of precious human lives and injured many others,” according to an official statement.
Continued at www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/world/asia/bacha-khan-university-attack-charsadda.html?_r=0 .