11 martyred as terrorists storm Peshawar's Directorate of Agriculture Institute

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11 martyred as terrorists storm Peshawar's Directorate of Agriculture Institute

Security personnel take position outside an Agriculture Training Institute after an attack by terrorists* *in Peshawar. Photo: AFP
PESHAWAR:* *At least 11 people including six students* were martyred and* 30 others* injured as three* terrorists* attacked* *Agriculture Institute of Peshawar* on Friday.

The terrorists were killed in a joint operation carried out by the Pakistan Army and local police.

Heavy contingent of police, Frontier Constabulary and army surrounded the campus before launching the operation.**

The area was reverberating with heavy gunfire while a huge explosion was also heard .


Identities of those martyred in the attack were yet to be known.


Inter-Services* Public Relations (ISPR), media wing of the army, announced in a statement that all the* terrorists have been killed.

Police and rescue workers stand outside the Directorate of Agriculture Institute in Peshawar. Photo: Reuters
Seven students, four security officials,* two* watchmen and a journalist* were* among the injured, according to Geo TV.**


Geo News correspondents said* five* burqa-clad attackers reportedly entered the Agricultural Directorate on an auto-rickshaw .*


Entrance to the Agriculture Directorate. Photo. Geo.tv
Peshawar's main University road remained closed for traffic during the operation.


The injured have been taken to Khyber Teaching* Hospital for treatment where three of them were in critical condition, Geo TV reported.

The ISPR said two wounded soldiers were taken to the Combined Military* Hospital for treatment.* *

According to Reuters the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan* has* claimed responsibility for the attack.*


Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan took to Twitter* and applauded the police and army* *for containing* damage and concluding the operation.

"Saddened by condemnable terrorist attack in Peshawar this morning. My prayers to to the victims and their families," he wrote.*






Taliban gunmen killed at least 20 people last year in an attack on Bacha Khan University* in Charsadda.


Over hundred children were killed in a militant raid* on Army Public School* on December 16, 2014.*


According to the Global Terrorism Database maintained by researchers at the University of Maryland, there were 867 attacks on educational institutions in Pakistan from 2007 to 2015, resulting in 392 deaths and 724 injuries.*

According to the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, at least 838 schools in Pakistan were attacked between 2009 and 2012, killing at least 30 students and injuring 97 others.

*The data available indicate that attacks since 2012 have claimed hundreds of lives.







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