Pakistan University Attack: Gunmen Storm Killed At Least 30

Gunmen Storm Killed At Least 30 People At Bacha Khan University

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  Gunmen Storm Killed At Least 30 People At Bacha Khan University 

Date : 20.01.2016

A group of gunmen stormed the university in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and left dozens injured.

The gunmen entered the University of Bacha Khan of Charsadda in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, at about 09:30 (0430 GMT), apparently using the cover of heavy fog this morning, and opened fire on students and teachers in the classroom and residential complexes.

Gun battle ensued between the attackers and the Pakistani security forces, with soldiers show television footage entering the campus as ambulances lined up outside the main gate and parents anxious sympathy to each other. After several hours, the military said four of the attackers were killed and that the removal process is over.

At midday local time regional minister said that 30 people had been killed, although the reports have not been verified by witnesses indicate that the number could rise. Said Naseer, a student at the age of 23 years, he counted more than 50 bodies and saw gunmen shoot male and female students "without discrimination." "They were shooting directly at the heads of the students," he said.

Said Salman Khan, an operating room technician in Charsadda district hospital for serious injuries was wounded in the head and chest. He was transferred to the Lady Reading Hospital, the largest in Peshawar, the provincial capital near the fifty most seriously injured.

The attack came 14 months after gunmen belonging to the Pakistani militant group electronic trigger for the Taliban attacked an army school in Peshawar, killing 132 children. Since then Pakistan, killing and arresting hundreds of suspected militants as part of a plan to combat terrorism, which was issued in the wake of the massacre.

The move to e-Taliban commander told AFP that he was responsible for the attack on Wednesday and involved four suicide bombers. However, Mohammed al-Khorasani, the main spokesman for the Taliban Pakistan, denied a group of the attack, describing it as "un-Islamic".

He said Shabbir Khan, a lecturer in the Department of English at the university was about to leave the hostel for the department when the shooting started. "Most of the students and staff were in classes when the shooting started," he said.

The attackers entered the campus appeared, by climbing the walls and the shooting of a security guard before they made their way to the administration building and dormitories male students, the minister Saeed Khan, a police official, told The Associated Press.

University Vice-Chancellor, preferred Rahim Marwat, told AFP he was on his way to work when he was told of the attack. "There was no threat announced, but we have already boosted security at the university," he said.

It has been reported more than 3,000 people to be on campus, which lies about 60 miles (100KM) northwest of Islamabad.

The Taliban faction claimed responsibility for the attack on the Bacha Khan University. But the main group of the Taliban faction, saying innocent students are the future of the jihadi movement.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for an armed attack on a university in Pakistan. At least 19 people have died.

Charsadda, gunmen Pakistan Taliban stormed a university in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and sparking a battle that lasted hours with the army and police forces before the army declares that the attack in the town near the city of Peshawar has ended.

Echoes of the attack raised the grim apocalyptic 2014 Peshawar school attack in which more than 150 people were killed, most of them children, and shocked the nation. He pushed the Pakistani prime minister, the country vows to wipe out "terrorist threat." Police said the four attackers were also killed.

He said about 35 kilometers outside of Peshawar Deputy Commissioner Tahir Zafar began the attack on Wednesday shortly after the open Bacha Khan University classes in the town of Charsadda.

As police and soldiers rushed to the campus, the attackers traded fire with the soldiers and several explosions were heard from the university area. The army said the attackers are given later in the two buildings inside the university, where troops killed four attackers.

He was a professor of chemistry and a student of a fingernail between the dead, he said, adding it was not clear at first how many of the attackers managed to penetrate the campus. And Television footage showed heavy military presence at the university, troops rush in and people are fleeing. The ambulances at the scene and the injured were taken to hospital.

The attackers entered the university compound by climbing over the walls and the shooting of a security guard before they made their way to the said police official Saeed Khan, Minister in the management and building housing male students.

Rescue workers take the injured man to the hospital after an attack by gunmen in Bacha Khan University in Charsadda near Peshawar on Wednesday.

A witness, botany teacher Mohammed Ishtiaq jumped out of the second floor of the building when he heard shots and broke his leg. He said two of the attackers on the first floor and three on the ground floor, he said, adding that they were using automatic rifles. He said the students ran in different directions.

"I locked myself in the bathroom," he said. "I jumped when I saw one of the attackers coming toward me and shoot directly before him."

He pledged Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to fight until the end and the destruction of the Taliban and other militants.

"We are determined and resolved in our commitment to eradicate the threat of terrorism from our country," Sharif said in a statement.

He claimed the Taliban leader, Khalifa Omar Mansour, claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack in a telephone call with The Associated Press from an undisclosed location.

Said Mansour, who was the mastermind of the attack Peshawar school, a team of four men from the Taliban attack in Chasadda. He said he was in retaliation for dozens of activists Pakistani security forces have been killed in recent months. He repeated the main spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Mohammed al-Khorasani also claim responsibility.

However, the main spokesman for the Taliban in Pakistan disown later the group behind the attack on Wednesday, describing the attack as "un-Islamic". He also denied that Mohammad Khorasani earlier reports that he endorsed the request Mansour, said that those who carried out these attacks will be tried before the Court of Islamic, or Sharia.

Such statements from the Taliban are not uncommon because the team has many factions linked loosely and demonstrates the deep divisions and the divisions among the rebels.

He also said Khorasani Taliban "students consider non-military institutions, the future of our jihad movement" will not kill the followers of the potential in the future. Mullah insisted Fadlallah, head of the Pakistani Taliban, I had done nothing with the attack.

The attack on Wednesday was also the second Taliban attack in two days in the restive northwest. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a police checkpoint on the outskirts of a crowded Peshawar on Tuesday, killing 11 people in the attack, which also claimed by the Taliban.

Later Wednesday afternoon, the governor of the province Sardar Mehtab Abbasi announced that the military operation on the basis of the campus has been completed and that the attack was over. He added that the troops combed the surrounding areas, looking for more potential attackers.

Pakistan's army chief Gen. departure of Sharif visited the campus and the city hospital where the injured were taken to.

University was named after the founder of Bacha Khan, the anti-Taliban liberal political party. We have the Pakistani Taliban in the past targeted the party to its policies against the militants.

Pakistan's northwest tribal areas and the lawless border with Afghanistan is a highly volatile area. Pakistani forces have been carried out a major operation against Taliban and other militants there since 2014.

In the past month, as the country marks the first anniversary of the attack Peshawar school, and claimed the army "enormous successes" in the war and said he was about 3,500 insurgents have been killed since the operation began.

Although authorities say the violence since the start of the year fell by a large-scale military campaign in North Waziristan, the Taliban are still able to carry out large-scale attacks.

Peshawar school attack horrified the country and prompted the government to lift the moratorium on the death penalty in 2008. Pakistan hang four gunmen last month sentenced to death for his involvement in the attack.