26 October 2016

News Story: IS claims deadly police center attack in SW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Islamic State (IS) on Tuesday claimed a deadly attack at a police training center in Pakistan's southwest Quetta city on Monday night, local media reported.

The IS' Amaq news agency claimed that they sent three men to attack the cadets at the hostel of Sariab Road police training center, located some 20 km away from downtown Quetta, the capital city of the country's southwest Balochistan province, according to the News.

The Amaq agency also posted a picture of three men carrying Kalashnikovs and wearing suicide jackets on its website, saying that the attack was carried out by IS' Khorasan province.

The mouthpiece said that the militants "used machine guns and grenades, and then blew up their explosive vests in the crowd."

Read the full story at Xinhua