Up to 20 people have been killed, including students and a professor, as gunmen attacked a university in northwest Pakistan, Al-Jazeera reported a Pakistan provincial minister as saying.
The assault began on Wednesday morning at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, about 140km from the capital Islamabad.
Provincial Minister for Health and Information Shaukat Yousafzai added that over 50 people have been injured.
Police say that two of the gunmen have been killed. Local media reports that the attack has been claimed by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan.
The university has over 3,000 enrolled students and was hosting an additional 600 visitors on Wednesday for a poetry recital on the death anniversary of the Pashtun activist Abdul Ghaffar ‘Bacha’ Khan, the vice chancellor said. Officials say 63 students have been rescued from the premises.
-Agencies
