At least 59 killed in attack on Pakistani police college
Officials in Quetta, Pakistan, say that at least 59 people were killed and more than 100 injured late Monday after militants wearing suicide vests barged into a police training college and took hostages.
Most of the dead were police cadets, Reuters reports. Witnesses heard gunfire and explosions throughout the five hour ordeal at Baluchistan Police College, and hundreds of trainees were evacuated. Baluchistan provincial home minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti said the militants stormed into a dormitory while the trainees slept, and "two attackers blew up themselves while a third one was shot in the head by security men." No organization has claimed responsibility yet for the attack.
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