Taliban Serang Universitas di Pakistan, Tewaskan 21 Mahasiswa
At Least 21 Killed in Taliban Attack on Pakistan University
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
SEDIKITNYA 21 orang tewas dan 50 lainnya terluka dalam serangan di sebuah universitas di Pakistan.
Sejumlah pria bersenjata memulai serangan mereka tak lama sebelum Bacha Khan University di Charsadda, sekitar 20 mil dari Peshawar, dibuka pada Rabu pagi, dan mereka memanfaatkan kabut musim dingin sebagai tameng saat mereka memanjat dinding.
Wakil rektor universitas Fazal Rahim kepada Sky News mengatakan bahwa siswa berjumlah sekitar 3.000 orang, dan ada 600 tamu universitas sedang menghadiri resital puisi.
Polisi dan personil militer tiba di tempat kejadian yang mendengar baku tembak beruntun dengan penyerang di sekitar universitas.
Beberapa ledakan juga terdengar.
Setidaknya 21 orang tewas. Ambulans berada di tempat kejadian dan mengambil korban yang terluka ke rumah sakit setempat.
Juru bicara militer, Letnan Jenderal Asim Bajwa, mengatakan bahwa empat penyerang tewas dan pasukan pemerintah telah menguasai semua bangunan hingga ke atap gedung.
Rekaman televisi lokal menunjukkan tentara memasuki gedung setelah mahasiswa dan dosen bergegas keluar, seperti dilansir metro.co.uk.
Seorang saksi mengatakan kepada wartawan, "Kami melihat tiga teroris berteriak," Allahu Akbar! "Dan bergegas menaiki tangga di universitas."
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, cabang Pakistan dari kelompok teror, mengaku bertanggung jawab atas serangan itu.
Bacha Khan adalah nama pendiri partai, partai politik liberal anti-Taliban, dan Taliban di masa lalu menjadi target partai.
Pada Desember 2014, lebih dari 150 orang - kebanyakan dari mereka anak-anak - tewas dalam serangan Taliban di sebuah sekolah di Peshawar.
AT LEAST 21 people have been killed and up to 50 others injured in an attack on a university in Pakistan.
Gunmen began their assault shortly before the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, which is around 20 miles from Peshawar, opened this morning, and used the dense winter fog as cover while they scaled the walls.
University vice chancellor Fazal Rahim told Sky News that students normally number about 3,000, but an extra 600 visitors were attending a poetry recital.
Police and military personnel arriving at the scene were heard exchanging gunfire with attackers in the university’s surrounding area.
Several explosions were also heard.
At least 21 people have been killed. Ambulances are at the scene and taking the wounded to local hospitals.
Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa, an army spokesperson, said that four attackers had been killed and that government troops had taken control of all buildings and rooftops.
Local television footage shows troops enter the building as students and professors rush out.
One witness told reporters, ‘We saw three terrorists shouting, “Allah is great!” and rushing towards the stairs of our department.’
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, the Pakistani branch of the terror group, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Bacha Khan is named for the founder of a liberal, anti-Taliban political party, and the Taliban have in the past targeted the party.
In December 2014, more than 150 people – most of them children – were killed in a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar.
