Pakistan mourns scores killed in attack on police academy barracks
Quetta — Pakistan on Tuesday mourned the killing of at least 60 people in an attack on a police academy, the worst on a security installation in the country’s history. Three or four gunmen burst into the sprawling academy in the southwest, targeting sleeping quarters home to about 700 recruits in a strike that put them to terrified flight. "I saw three men in camouflage, whose faces were hidden, carrying Kalashnikovs," said one cadet. "They started firing and entered the dormitory. I escaped over a wall." The attack on the Balochistan Police College, about 20km east of the provincial capital Quetta, began at about 11.10pm local time on Monday. Gunfire went on for several hours. Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister of Balochistan province, said there were three attackers. "They first targeted the watch tower sentry, and after exchanging fire, killed him and were able to enter the academy grounds," he said. Major-General Sher Afgan, chief of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Balochistan whi...
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