19 people feared dead after assault on Pakistan university

At least nineteen people have been reported dead after a gun attack on a university in Charsadda, north-west of Pakistan.

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Reports say four of the attackers were also killed when security forces battled the assailants after they stormed Bacha Khan University setting off explosions.

According to an army official, gunshots had stopped but security troops are still combing the campus nearly three hours after the attack started.

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