Terrorists attack Pakistan university
(Vatican Radio) The Catholic
aid agency Caritas Pakistan has condemned Wednesday’s deadly attacks by Islamic
militants at a university in the northeast of the country.
“The whole nation is in
shock,” said Amjad Gulzar, National executive director for Caritas Pakistan, in
an interview with Vatican Radio hours after the attack against the Bacha
Khan University in Charsadda town.
“We condemn this brutal act,”
he said, adding: “The whole nation needs to be united.”
At least 20 people have been
killed after militants stormed the university soon after it opened.
Students, guards, policemen, and at least one teacher are listed among the
confirmed dead.
Police say dozens of people
were also wounded in the attack, and that four gunmen had been killed.
The siege on the university
comes days after some schools closed in Peshawar amid reports of potential
terrorist attacks.
“This is something that is
frightening to the students and the parents,” he said.
“It’s really sad in Pakistan
that the educational institutions and innocent students and the children and
the teachers are being targeted.”
Wednesday’s attack comes
little more than a year after a similar attack against a school in Peshawar in
2014 which left 134 dead, most of whom were children.
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