According
to media reports three suicide vests clad armed attackers gained access
to the Police Training Academy in Quetta by killing a guard who
resisted valiantly. Once inside they took 280 police cadets hostage. The
fire fight that ensued with security forces led by the Army resulted in
60 dead and more than 150 wounded. One attacker was shot dead while the
other two blew themselves up. The attack is said to have been master
minded by ‘Lashkar Jhangvi Alalami”—Lashkar Jhangvi International
probably to distinguish it from its domestic wing that has been
attacking members of the Shia sect previously. The last big attack in
Quetta was on the lawyers who had assembled to condole the death of
their colleague who had been assassinated just hours earlier. The
investigation into that attack is still ongoing.Tuesday 25 October 2016
The Quetta Attack
According
to media reports three suicide vests clad armed attackers gained access
to the Police Training Academy in Quetta by killing a guard who
resisted valiantly. Once inside they took 280 police cadets hostage. The
fire fight that ensued with security forces led by the Army resulted in
60 dead and more than 150 wounded. One attacker was shot dead while the
other two blew themselves up. The attack is said to have been master
minded by ‘Lashkar Jhangvi Alalami”—Lashkar Jhangvi International
probably to distinguish it from its domestic wing that has been
attacking members of the Shia sect previously. The last big attack in
Quetta was on the lawyers who had assembled to condole the death of
their colleague who had been assassinated just hours earlier. The
investigation into that attack is still ongoing.
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