PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Islamist militants stormed a provincial government complex for agricultural research in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 12 people including students and wounding 35 others, police and rescue officials said. The main Taliban militant group, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, claimed responsibility saying the place they attacked was housing a secret intelligence office. “Police and military troops engaged in a quick and well-co-ordinated firefight and evacuation efforts saved scores of lives, otherwise the death toll could have been much higher,” he said. In 2014, militants attacked an army-run school in Peshawar killing more than 150 people, mostly school children. In the adjacent town of Charsadda, militants attacked Bacha Khan University, named after a secular leader, in 2016, killing more than 20 students.

Source: National Post December 01, 2017 06:34 UTC