Breakthrough in identifying Attackers
PESHAWAR:
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Asim Bajwa on
Wednesday, 20th January 2015, said major breakthroughs had been made
in identifying the terrorists who attacked the Bacha Khan University in
Charsadda, in Khyber Faktunkwa Province earlier in the day.
The ISPR chief said the
terrorists' phone calls had been traced and analysed, and that two cell phones
had also been recovered from them.
"When army reached the
premises, all four attackers were alive. They were contained in the hostel and
were eventually eliminated on the roof and the stairs," informed the ISPR
chief. They had a lot of ammo, including grenades, he added.
Earlier
in the day, unidentified gunmen entered Bacha Khan University in Khyber
Pakhtunkha’s Charsadda town and opened fire on students and faculty members as
they gathered for a poetry recital to commemorate the death anniversary of the
activist and leader Bacha Khan. Total 21 persons including one Professor killed
and more thatn 50 injured. Total 25 persons including 4 terrorists were killed
in the incident of shootout and explosions similar to attack on Army School in
Peshawar in which 140 people killed in 2014.
The mastermind of the APS
Peshawar attack, Umar Mansoor, of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
Geedar group has claimed the attack through a post on his Facebook page, adding
that four attackers were sent to the university.
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