Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, which had massacred 134 school children at a school in Peshawar in 2014, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Pakistani troops arrive at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda.- A group of at least six militants, using the cover of thick, wintry fog, scaled the walls of the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
- 3,000 students were present this morning on campus along with 600 visitors attending a poetry recital to commemorate the death anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a popular ethnic Pashtun independence activist after whom the university is named.
- Firing had ended after several hours and four militants had been killed, the army said, in an attack that comes a little over a year after Taliban gunmen killed 134 students at a military-run school in nearby Peshawar.
- A security official unnamed by news agency Reuters said the death toll could rise to as high as 40 as the army cleared out student hostels and classrooms.
- Emergency official Bilal Faizi described seeing five bodies, all with bullet wounds. Military spokesman Major General Asim Bajwa said on Twitter that four attackers had been killed.
- Police, soldiers and special forces swarmed the university from the ground and the air in a bid to shut down the assault, as television images showed female students running for their lives.
- The number of dead rose rapidly after armed men stormed the Bacha Khan university in Charsadda, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the city of Peshawar, in the latest outrage to hit the militant-infested region.
- At least 21 people died in an armed assault on a university in Pakistan Wednesday, where witnesses reported two large explosions as security forces moved in under dense fog to halt the bloodshed.
Pakistani troops arrive at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, which had massacred 134 school children at a school in Peshawar in 2014, claimed responsibility for the attack.
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