QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s city of Quetta was completely shut down Wednesday following a militant rampage at a police academy the day before while families buried 60 police cadets and an army officer killed in the attack – one of the deadliest targeting Pakistani security forces in recent years.
The brazen assault in which unarmed cadets and police trainees – many of whom were asleep in their dorms when the attack started – jumped from windows and rooftops, fleeing for their lives, saw troops battle the attackers for four hours before the siege was over.
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