{"id":34357,"date":"2017-12-02T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T06:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=34357"},"modified":"2017-12-02T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T06:37:53","slug":"investigation-begins-in-peshawar-agriculture-directorate-attack-case-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=34357","title":{"rendered":"Investigation begins in Peshawar Agriculture Directorate attack, case filed"},"content":{"rendered":"

PESHAWAR Dec 02 (TNS):<\/strong> Investigation authorities have started probe in the gun attack at Peshawar Agriculture Directorate, in which eleven people were martyred and dozens injured on Friday.<\/p>\n

Authorities have filed a case in police stations of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), which includes a terrorism act.<\/p>\n

CCTV videos from various locations have also been gathered.<\/p>\n

The authorities have also sent body parts of killed terrorists to Lahore for DNA testing.<\/p>\n

Terrorists on Friday morning attacked the student hostel inside the Directorate of Agriculture Extension on University Road in Peshawar.<\/p>\n

The security forces later managed to kill all the terrorists after a gunfight which lasted over an hour.<\/p>\n

SSP Operations Sajjad Khan told that five attackers wearing suicide jackets reached the compound in a rickshaw.<\/p>\n

They were said to be wearing burqas in the rickshaw so as to avoid detection.<\/p>\n

The police official said the attackers’ first target was the security guard of the premises, following which they made their way inside towards the students’ hostel of the Agriculture Training Institute.<\/p>\n

Later, army spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor praised the police performance during the operation. Speaking to a private news channel, Maj Gen Ghafoor said the terrorists were in contact with their partners in Afghanistan throughout the attack.<\/p>\n

He, however, put the number of killed terrorists at three.<\/p>\n

The police and army immediately reached the site and launched an operation to clear the area and neutralise the terrorists.<\/p>\n

The police and army immediately reached the site and launched an operation to clear the area and neutralise the terrorists.<\/p>\n

Aerial surveillance of the operation was carried out by the army aviation division whereas armoured vehicles of security forces were also on site.<\/p>\n

Peshawar Capital City Police Officer Tahir Khan and SSP Operations Sajjad Khan were leading the operation.<\/p>\n

Intermittent gunfire and blasts could be heard from inside the premises throughout the operation.<\/p>\n

Later, during the combing operation, authorities recovered suicide jackets, two Klashnikovs, pistols, and explosives from the possession of deceased terrorists.<\/p>\n

The explosives and suicide jackets were disposed of later in a controlled explosion by the bomb disposal unit.<\/p>\n

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa IG Salahuddin Khan Mehsud said fortunately not many students were present due to the long weekend, adding that police APCs evacuated around a dozen students from the hostel.<\/p>\n

“Special units of the Pakistan Army were taking part in the operation [alongside police],” he said further.<\/p>\n

University Road, the major artery of the city, was closed down for traffic after the incident and reopened around noon.<\/p>\n

The injured were shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH), located next to the directorate.<\/p>\n

An emergency was declared in the hospital. The hospital’s spokesperson, Dr Saud, initially said a total of 11 injured were brought to the hospital.<\/p>\n

He added that the injured included seven students, two military personnel, a police officer and a journalist. The wounded are said to have been injured in firing as well as hurting themselves while escaping the attack.<\/p>\n

However, later, the casualties were said to be 11 dead and more than 30 injured, including security personnel.<\/p>\n

An eyewitness told he and his colleagues were sleeping when the firing started, around 8:15AM.<\/p>\n

The eyewitness, a student, said he and his colleagues ran as fast as they could but two of their colleagues were injured in the firing.<\/p>\n

“We took them out with us and admitted them to the hospital,” said Ariful Haq, adding that around 120 students live in the hostel but most had gone home due to the long weekend.<\/p>\n

He added that the students who board at the premises are undertaking their diplomas in Agriculture Sciences and Veterinary Sciences.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the premises, houses offices of the Agriculture Directorate Extension, Agriculture Livestock Department, Peshawar Housing Authority and the office of the director general of agriculture.<\/p>\n

According to the army’s media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), all the terrorists were killed in the operation.<\/p>\n

Eight students were evacuated from the hostel, the ISPR said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The army said two of its injured were sent to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH).<\/p>\n

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