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ลำดับตอนที่ #6 : Deadly assault on Pakistan university
- 20 January 2016
Pakistan Charsadda:
Deadly assault on university
Four suspected
attackers also died in a battle that lasted nearly three hours at Bacha Khan
University in Charsadda.
There are
conflicting reports about whether Pakistan Taliban militants carried out the assault.
The group killed 130
students at a school in the city of Peshawar, 50km (30 miles) from Charsadda,
in 2014.
About 3,000 students are enrolled at Bacha Khan but hundreds of visitors were also expected on Wednesday for a poetry event.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
said in a statement, quoted by Reuters news agency: "We are determined and
resolved in our commitment
to wipe out the menace of terrorism from
our homeland."
It could have
been much worse - M Ilyas Khan, BBC News, Islamabad
There have been conflicting
claims about who could be involved in the attack, especially given a
kaleidoscopic mix of militant networks that is evolving along the
Pakistan-Afghan border region in the north.
The attack comes amid a sudden spike in militant
violence in Pakistan, after a year of relative peace and quiet largely attributed to a 2014
military operation against militant sanctuaries in Waziristan. Questions are now being raised over
whether that operation really destroyed the ability of militants to regroup and
strike at will.
The attack is reminiscent of the
December 2014 attack on a school in Peshawar in which more than 150 people,
mostly schoolboys, were killed. But damage to life and property this time has been much less,
mainly due to swift
action by the local police, but also because of the fact that the university
had its own team of more than 50 trained security guards on duty who first confronted the attackers.
A dense fog that reduced visibility to less than 10m
may also have been a factor, as one police officer explained, because it put
the attackers at a disadvantage against the university guards who knew the premises better.
Lecturer shot
"The operation is over and
the university has been cleared," Pakistani army spokesman Gen Asim Bajwa
told Reuters news
agency. "Four gunmen have been killed."
The attackers struck at around 09:30
local time (04:30 GMT), apparently climbing over a back wall under cover of the
thick winter fog.
Intense gunfire and explosions were
heard as security guards fought the attackers.
"I personally heard two
explosions," an unidentified eyewitness told Pakistan's Geo TV.
"We don't know if they were
suicide bombers or grenades. I personally saw two explosions and smoke was
rising."
Students and staff
ran to find cover in toilets and examination halls.
Geology student
Zahoor Ahmed said his chemistry lecturer had warned him not to leave the
building after the first shots were fired.
"He was holding a pistol in his hand,"
he was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.
"Then I saw a
bullet hit him. I saw two militants were firing. I ran inside and then managed
to flee by jumping
over the back wall."
Another student told
television reporters he was in class when he heard gunshots.
"We saw three
terrorists shouting, 'Allah is great!' and rushing towards the stairs of our
department," he said.
"One student
jumped out of the classroom through the window. We never saw him get up."
Images from inside
the university show a pool of blood on the floor of a dormitory and the charred corpses of two alleged militants lying
on a staircase.
Grieving
relatives gathered at a hospital as the bodies of victims were placed in coffins.
Taliban denial
A senior Taliban
commander, Umar Mansoor, told media that the attack was in response to a
military offensive against militant strongholds. He said four suicide attackers had carried out the
attack.
However, the group's
main spokesman, Mohammad Khurasani, later told the BBC the Taliban had not been
involved. He condemned
the attack as "un-Islamic".
An assistant
professor at the university, Dr Shakoor, told the BBC he had turned back from
the main gate of
the campus after being told it was under attack.
Most of the students and members of the faculty would probably still not have arrived when the attack started, he said.
He saw people coming out through
the main gate, apparently
because the attackers had entered the campus from the back.
The university is
located in an open area some distance east of Charsadda town, surrounded by
open agricultural fields, and is therefore a soft target, the BBC's Ilyas Khan
reports.
Bacha Khan is a new university,
founded in 2012, its website says.
Just days ago, some
schools in Peshawar were closed by the authorities amid reports that militants were planning an
attack.
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active, determined, and often willing to use force:
assault.
(n.)
commitment (n.)
a willingness to give your time and energy to something that you believe in, or a promise or firm decisionto do something:
wipe out
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a dangerous quality that makes you think someone is going to do something bad:
amid
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thin shape with a sharp point at one end, or something, especially a piece of metal,
with this shape:
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strike (v.)
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confronted (v.)
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Syn ,
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pistol (n.)
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charred (adj.)
corpses (n.)
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alleged (v.)
to say that someone has done something illegal or wrongwithout giving proof:
Grieving
feeling very sad because someone has died:
coffins.
(n.)
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strongholds.
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a place or area where a particular belief or activity is common:
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faculty (n.)
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see,
think, move,
etc.:
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apparently (adv,)
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used when the real situation is different from what you thought it was:
authorities (n.)
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a group of people with official responsibility for a particular area of activity
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such as the police or a local government department:
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