ISLAMABAD, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Over 20 people were killed and 109 others injured in a terrorist attack at a police training center in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Monday night, officials said early Tuesday.
Provincial Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said that three terrorists involved in the attack were also killed by the security forces during the four-hour long operation against them. Earlier, the minister claimed that four terrorists had been killed during the operation.
Chief of the paramilitary force Frontier Corps Major-General Sher Afgun said that the operation against the terrorists have been concluded, and now a search and clearance operation has started in the premises of the police training center.
According to Afgun, a group of three terrorists armed with suicide vests, automatic guns and hand grenades sneaked into the center from the backyard after killing a guard at a watchtower at around 11:05 p.m. local time on Monday.
The terrorists occupied a hostel of the police training center and made around 200 policemen hostage in the dining hall of the hostel located at the Saryab Road area of Quetta, capital of Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan.
"One of the terrorists was killed by the security personnel, while two others exploded their jackets near the captives after they were cordoned off by the army commandos, which caused sharp rise in death toll," said Bugti.
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