At least 26 people were killed and up to 90 injured as gunmen opened firing and throwing hand grenades at Lahore police training center on Monday morning.
The official, the inspector general of police for Punjab Province, Khalid Farook, said efforts were being made to capture the attackers alive. Television footage from a neighboring building showed the militants holed up on the second floor of the building and people could be moving around inside. The militants were throwing grenades at about 10-minute intervals, one of the television reports said.
A cadet who was on the parade ground at the time of the attack said the gunmen entered the school at about 8 a.m. from the rear. The attackers immediately threw grenades and opened fire, said Amir Farook, 22. “Most of the recruits were present on the parade ground,” Mr. Farook said as he waited for treatment at a Lahore hospital. Contradicting some reports, he said the gunmen were not wearing police uniforms.
About 20 to 30 cadets who had served on night duty were still inside the three-story building at the time of the attack, Mr. Farook said. It was likely, he said, that the attackers were planning to take the night duty cadets hostage.
Wounded cadets were carried out of the center on stretchers and some who had escaped by jumping over walls were shown weeping in television footage. The school was believed to have 850 cadets under training.
