PESHAWAR:
At least 35 female students were injured in a brazen grenade attack on a college in Mardan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkwa province, around 40 kilometers from the provincial capital, Peshawar.
Police said that the incident took place in jurisdiction of the Londkhawar Police Station, when two militants riding a motorcycle entered the Government Girls Degree College Landkhawar and lobbed two grenades on an ongoing college party. The blast also damaged the college bus parked nearby.
“Thirty-five students were injured in this attack,” District Police Officer Mardan Dr Zeeshan Raza told The Express Tribune.
Dr Raza said there were two attackers on a motorcycle and they managed to escape following the incident. The police official added that the miscreants also shot and injured Faras Khan – one of the victim’s father – when he tried to overpower the fleeing militants.
Following the incident, the police launched a search operation in the area, which was in progress till the filing of this report.
The attack came during a farewell thrown by third year students to their senior graduating class.
The injured were rushed to the Mardan Medical Complex, District Headquarters Hospital Mardan and Civil Hospital Landkhwar. Three students in critical condition were rushed to Peshawar.
Senior police officials and political leaders rushed to the scene of the attack and also visited the injured students at various hospitals where they were admitted.
Minister for Higher Education in Khyber-Pahkhtunkhwa (K-P) Qazi Asad termed the incident as worrying and said that the government will take steps to thwart such attempts in the future.
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