2017 Peshawar Agriculture Directorate attack | |
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Location | Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
Coordinates | 34°02′01″N 71°47′41″E / 34.03361°N 71.79472°E |
Date | December 1, 2017 |
Injured | 15+ |
Assailants | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan |
Defenders | Police, Rangers and Army |
On 1st December 2017 Friday morning 3-4 gunmen with their faces covered affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), entered to the Agriculture Directorate of Agricultural University Peshawar started firing as a result at least four people were injured and have been shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital for treatment, located next to the directorate[1][2][3].
Background
Security forces have surrounded the building and cordoned off the area, and an operation is underway by Police, Rangers and Army reached the campus, and the exchange of firing between the attackers and the law enforcement personnel took place and 8 to 10 people were evacuated. While Peshawar's main University road (the major artery of the city) had been closed for traffic. Seven students, four security officials, two watchmen and a journalist were among the injured, a student hostel, which houses around 100-120 students but most had gone home due to the long weekend (holiday on friday due to Eid Miladun Nabi. This is the second attack in a week in Peshawar, last Friday, senior police official Mohammad Ashraf Noor was martyred in a suicide attack in the Hayatabad area of the city. Taliban gunmen killed at least 20 people last year in an attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, while over hundred children were killed in a militant raid on Army Public School on December 16, 2014[4][5][6][7].
See also
- 2017 Peshawar police vehicle attack
- Bacha Khan University attack
- 2014 Peshawar school massacre
- List of terrorist incidents in 2017
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(help) - ^ "3 injured in suspected militant attack on Peshawar Agricultural Directorate". nation.com.pk. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
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(help) - ^ "Armed men open firing near Peshawar's Agricultural University". dunyanews.tv. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
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(help) - ^ "Four injured in 'bomb and gun attack' on Peshawar's Agriculture Directorate". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
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(help) - ^ "Gunmen attack Agriculture University hostel in Peshawar". www.samaa.tv. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
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(help) - ^ "Peshawar attack: 4 terrorists killed, clearance operation underway". www.dawn.com. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
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