Quetta: Three terrorists, who stormed Police Training College (PTC) in Quetta on Monday night, killed 61 and wounded 120 police cadets, said official sources.
At late night on Monday, 3 terrorists stormed PTC which is located at Sariab Road, 20 KM away from center of Quetta city. 2 terrorist blew themselves up while third one was killed by the law enforcement agencies after a several hour long gunfight in the follow up operation.
According to the official sources, almost 700 unarmed cadets were living in the PTC when it came under the attack.
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IG Frontier Corps (FC) Major General Sher Afgan said that Al-Alimi faction of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) militant group is responsible for the attack. Later today, ISIS and a faction of TTP also claimed responsible for the attack.
In the aftermath of the attack, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Quetta city and chaired a high-level meeting on security at the Governor House in Quetta which was attended by top level military and security officials.
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