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Days after militant attack, Pakistani university reopens Pakistani university briefly reopens after militant attack
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Officials say a northwestern Pakistani university where Islamic militants gunned down 21 students and teachers last week has reopened for classes amid tight security. PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Pakistani university where Islamic militants gunned down 21 students and teachers last week briefly reopened amid tight security Monday before closing again, officials said.
University official Kabir Khan says classes at the Bacha Khan University in the town of Charsadda resumed on Monday. Police official Iqbal Khan says extra security measures are in place. The Bacha Khan University will be closed indefinitely for repairs and to give students and faculty more time to recover from the incident, university spokesman Saeed Khan said, adding that the decision would be revisited in a week’s time.
The attack last Wednesday triggered a gunbattle that lasted for hours until all four militants who took part in the raid were killed. The assault shocked the nation and raised grim memories of the December 2014 massacre in the nearby city of Peshawar where the Taliban killed 150, mostly children. Students who returned to the campus Monday saw blood stains on the floor of a men’s dormitory, bullet holes in walls and shattered windows.
Over the weekend, Pakistani officials said they arrested five suspects on charges of facilitating the Charsadda assault, which was claimed by a breakaway Taliban faction. Militants from a breakaway Taliban group stormed the university in the northwestern town of Charsadda last Wednesday, setting off an hours-long gunbattle with security forces in an attack the insurgents said was in revenge for the killing of fellow militants.
The attack revived memories of the December 2014 Taliban assault on a nearby army-run school in Peshawar, which killed some 150 people, nearly all of them children.
All four attackers who took part in the Charsadda assault were killed. Over the weekend, authorities announced the arrest of five others suspected of involvement.
Khan said the university has submitted a list of demands to the government, including the extension of the perimeter fence to 10 feet (three meters) high, the clearing of farmland within 100 feet (30 meters) of the campus and the widening of the main road to the school.
They have asked that a retired military officer be appointed head of campus security and that guards be issued modern weapons. They are also requesting that teachers be granted licenses to carry arms.
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