CHARSADDA / PESHAWAR / ISLAMABAD: At least 70 persons died when gunmen armed with grenades and Kalashnikovs attacked a university in Charsadda Wednesday 20th January 2016, as security forces encouraged in under thick fog to halt the carnage.
The Pakistan army forces, using the cover of thick, wintry fog, scaled the walls of the Bacha Khan University before entering buildings and opening fire on students and teachers in classrooms and hostels, police said.
The gunmen attacked as the university, CHARSADDA prepared to host a poetry to honour the death anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a general ethnic Pashtun freedom innovative after whom the university is titled.
The attack comes a little over a year after Taliban gunmen carried Army Public School in December 2014 and slaughtered more than 150 people, most of them children, in an hours-long barrier.
