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 |
Attack type | Mass murder, school shooting |
Deaths | 13[1] |
Injured | 30 |
Victims | University students and Forces |
Assailants | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan |
Defenders | Police, Rangers and Army |
On 1st December 2017 Friday morning 3-4 gunmen with burqa-clad, affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who arrived in a rickshaw at the Directorate of Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) in Peshawar, and shot the guard at the gate and then proceeded to the hostel of Agriculture Directorate at Agricultural University Peshawar started firing as a result at least 13 people were killed and 35+ were injured and have been shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital for treatment, located next to the directorate where an emergency had been imposed[2][3][4].
Background
Security forces have surrounded the building and cordoned off the area, and an operation is underway by Police, Frontier Crops (FC), 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. ISPR and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police said all terrorists have been neutralised after a successful clearance operation by security forces. The area was being surveyed by military helicopters. 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, Inter-Services Public Relations said two soldiers were injured in the attack and shifted to Combined Military Hospital for treatment. a student hostel, which houses around 100-120 students but most had gone home due to the long weekend. The hostel of the directorate was officially closed on Friday as the country celebrates 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[5][6][7][8].
Reactions
- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan condemned the militant attack on Directorate of Agriculture Institute of Peshawar. He tweeted and applauded the KPK police and army for the operation[9].
"Saddened by condemnable terrorist attack in Peshawar this morning. My prayers to to the victims and their families. Commend the rapid response of KP police and army that helped in containing damage and concluding the operation," and
"The reformed professional KP police force with its special rapid response unit has made a difference in dealing with acts of terrorism in a timely, holistic and coordinated manner", he wrote.
- Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the terrorist attack, and said security forces defeated terrorists with timely response[10].
See also
- 2017 Peshawar police vehicle attack
- Bacha Khan University attack
- 2014 Peshawar school massacre
- List of terrorist incidents in December 2017
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