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60 feared dead following attack on Pakistan Police Academy

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October 25, 2016

60 feared dead following attack on Pakistan Police Academy

An attack at a Pakistan police training academy in the southwestern city of Quetta by gunmen wearing suicide vests claimed the lives of no less than sixty people and injured a 100 others.

According to reports, more than 200 police trainees were stationed at the facility when the gunmen struck taking cadets as hostages in the attack which lasted for five hours.

In a statement, Mir Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister of Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is the capital, said most of the dead were police cadets as the gunmen attacked a dormitory inside the training facility while cadets were asleep.

“Two attackers blew up themselves while a third one was shot in the head by security men,” Bugti said. Earlier officials said there were five to six gunmen.

In his own account, one cadet who survived told local media that; “Militants came directly into our barrack. They just barged in and started firing point blank. We started screaming and running around in the barrack”.

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