[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tehreek-i-Taliban militants stormed the hostel of Peshawar’s Agricultural Training Institute on Friday morning, all terrorists neutralised says police

In a brutal terror attack that targeted students, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)  militants entered the hostel of the Peshawar-based Agricultural Training Institute on Friday morning and gunned down at least 11 persons – a majority of them students – while injuring over 30 others. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police claimed by Friday noon that all terrorists had been neutralised after a “successful clearance operation” by security forces though the details of the total casualty count and identity of those killed had not yet been declared.

According to reports by Pakistan’s Geo News, five TTP militants reached the Agricultural Training Institute in a rickshaw at around 8 am on Friday morning. The militants were said to be wearing burqas to conceal their weapons and avoid being identified.

After firing indiscriminately at the security guard of the premises, the TTP terrorists made their way towards the students’ hostel of the Agricultural Training Institute. Senior KP police official Sajjad Khan told Geo News that the local police and the Army had stepped in to counter the offensive immediately while an aerial surveillance of the operation was also carried out by the Pakistan Army’s aviation division. Armoured vehicles of security forces were also pressed into action, converting the Agricultural Training Institute campus into a war zone.

According to media reports, the combing operations underway at the campus – following the gunning down of the militants – have so far led to the recovery of five suicide jackets, two Klashnikovs, pistols, and other equipment that the terrorists had brought with them.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa IG Salahuddin Khan Mehsud was quoted by Geo News as saying that the casualty figure could have been much higher if the attack had been carried out on a weekday. The college was closed for a long weekend on account of Eid-Milad-un-Nabi (Friday) and the usual holidays over Saturday and Sunday.

A report by Dawn News said that Peshawar’s arterial thoroughfare – the University Road – had been closed down for traffic during the terror attack and subsequent combing operations but was re-opened for traffic by afternoon.

The injured have been shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH). Officials at the hospitals were quoted as saying that of the initial lot of 11 injured persons brought to the facility for treatment seven were students while two military personnel, a police officer and a journalist were also among those injured.

The premises of the Agricultural Training Institute also house the offices of the Agriculture Directorate Extension, Agriculture Livestock Department, Peshawar Housing Authority and the director general of agriculture.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Tehreek-i-Taliban militants stormed the hostel of Peshawar’s Agricultural Training Institute on Friday morning, all terrorists neutralised says police

In a brutal terror attack that targeted students, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)  militants entered the hostel of the Peshawar-based Agricultural Training Institute on Friday morning and gunned down at least 11 persons – a majority of them students – while injuring over 30 others. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police claimed by Friday noon that all terrorists had been neutralised after a “successful clearance operation” by security forces though the details of the total casualty count and identity of those killed had not yet been declared.

According to reports by Pakistan’s Geo News, five TTP militants reached the Agricultural Training Institute in a rickshaw at around 8 am on Friday morning. The militants were said to be wearing burqas to conceal their weapons and avoid being identified.

After firing indiscriminately at the security guard of the premises, the TTP terrorists made their way towards the students’ hostel of the Agricultural Training Institute. Senior KP police official Sajjad Khan told Geo News that the local police and the Army had stepped in to counter the offensive immediately while an aerial surveillance of the operation was also carried out by the Pakistan Army’s aviation division. Armoured vehicles of security forces were also pressed into action, converting the Agricultural Training Institute campus into a war zone.

According to media reports, the combing operations underway at the campus – following the gunning down of the militants – have so far led to the recovery of five suicide jackets, two Klashnikovs, pistols, and other equipment that the terrorists had brought with them.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa IG Salahuddin Khan Mehsud was quoted by Geo News as saying that the casualty figure could have been much higher if the attack had been carried out on a weekday. The college was closed for a long weekend on account of Eid-Milad-un-Nabi (Friday) and the usual holidays over Saturday and Sunday.

A report by Dawn News said that Peshawar’s arterial thoroughfare – the University Road – had been closed down for traffic during the terror attack and subsequent combing operations but was re-opened for traffic by afternoon.

The injured have been shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH). Officials at the hospitals were quoted as saying that of the initial lot of 11 injured persons brought to the facility for treatment seven were students while two military personnel, a police officer and a journalist were also among those injured.

The premises of the Agricultural Training Institute also house the offices of the Agriculture Directorate Extension, Agriculture Livestock Department, Peshawar Housing Authority and the director general of agriculture.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]