{"id":379205,"date":"2017-12-01T08:16:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T08:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=379205"},"modified":"2017-12-01T08:16:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T08:16:42","slug":"pakistan-attack-gunmen-storm-peshawar-training-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/pakistan-attack-gunmen-storm-peshawar-training-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan attack: Gunmen storm Peshawar training college"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gunmen have stormed a college in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least nine people and injuring 36.<\/p>\n
At least three men disguised in burkas arrived in a rickshaw and entered the Peshawar Agriculture Training Institute on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
All of the attackers were also killed, the army said. The Pakistani Taliban said they had carried out the attack.<\/p>\n
The college was thought to have been closed for the Eid-e-Milad holiday.<\/p>\n
At least one blast was heard from inside the campus, according to media reports citing the military.<\/p>\n
Police and army commandos cordoned off the site.<\/p>\n
Eight students and an office worker were killed, police said.<\/p>\n
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One wounded student, Ahteshan ul-Haq, told Reuters that about 120 out of nearly 400 college residents were present during the attack, as most had gone home for a long holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
“We were sleeping when we heard gunshots. I got up and within seconds everybody was running and shouting ‘the Taliban have attacked’,” he said.<\/p>\n
Peshawar, close to the Afghan border, has seen some of the worst violence during the Taliban insurgency in recent years.<\/p>\n
In 2014 Taliban militants attacked an army-run school in Peshawar, leaving 141 people dead in one of the worst assaults in the country’s recent history.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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