Peshawar, Jan 20: Heavily-armed terrorists Wednesday stormed Bacha Khan University in Pakistan’s Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa province and opened indiscriminate fire on students and teachers.
At least one professor was believed killed and over a dozen student were seriously injured, television channels reported.
At least three gunmen entered the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, some 50 kms, south west of Peshawar, and opened fire on students and teachers in classrooms and hostels, the reports said.
Armed men stormed into the university premises early this morning, local police said, adding that two explosions were heard inside the building and firing was still going on. At least 10 persons, including security guards, sustained multiple injuries in the terrorist attack, police said. The injured were shifted to hospital. An emergency has been imposed in all hospitals in the town.
The reports quoted University Chancellor Dr Fazal Rahim to say that there are over 3,000 students present inside the university along with an additional 600 guests who are present for a poetic symposium to mark the death anniversary of Khudai Khidmatgar Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan alias Baacha Khan who died on January 20, 1988. The terrorists barged into the university where the event was being attended by a large number of students.
The attackers scaled the walls to enter the University, the reports said. A large contingent of security forces had reached the site and started evacuating students.
Army troops, police and personnel of Elite Force engaged the militants into gunfight. Security forces are not sure how many terrorists are holed up inside the university. Notably, the Taliban militants massacred over 150 people, mostly students, in an attack on an army-run school in Peshawar last year.
