One more Attack in Quetta Police Training College

 Number of people Attacked

Three Suicide attackers last night raged a police training institute in Quetta, inciting a military operation to clear the premises which additionally houses several police cadets.

According to reports At least 60 policemen have been confirmed dead and 120 cadets injured in an attack on the Police Training College on Saryab Road. Through media it was recorded that  three militants forced their entry into the hostel from the front gate around 9:30pm and held hostage an unknown number of cadets.

Balochistan Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti told media that

the three attackers first attacked the watch tower sentry of the academy and after killing the guard, were able to enter the premises.

Security sources say that out of the three militants two had blown up themselves while the third was shot dead.

Almost 250 cadets had been got released by SSG commandos. A police cadet named Zubair was killed, as intermittent exchange of fire was still continuing. Two army helicopters were providing aerial surveillance of the area.

It was not immediately clear how many cadets were in the building at the time of the attack. Provincial home minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti said it normally housed around 700 but “recently there was a batch which graduated so I can’t say how many there are now”.

 

 

 

 

Emergency had been announced at all the city hospitals. Most of the injured were being treated in  Civil Hospital, sustained bullet wounds, according to hospital sources. some of the injured were moved to the Bolan Medical Complex. Balochistan Chief Minister called an emergency meeting.

The IG FC claimed that the terrorists maintained communication with their handlers in Afghanistan. He told reporters that the three attackers were armed and wore suicide vests adding that the operation which was undertaken with “precision” took 4 hours to complete.

The training college has come under attack in the past in 2008 and 2006, with attackers firing rockets into the college playground.

 

 

 

 

In August, a suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital claimed by the Islamic State group and the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction of the Pakistani Taliban killed 73 people, including many of the city’s lawyer community who had gone there to mourn the fatal shooting of a colleague.

Pakistan says intelligence agencies of India and Afghanistan are fanning unrest in Balochistan by helping the rebels and sectarian militant outfits.

One of the reason could be that, the  Balochistan is also a key region for China’s ambitious $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor infrastructure project linking its western province of Xinjiang to the Arabian Sea via Pakistan. Security problems have mired CPEC in the past with numerous separatist attacks, but China has said it is confident the Pakistani military is in control.