At least 59 people were killed and more than a hundred wounded in an overnight raid by militants on a police academy in southwest Pakistan kevin durant shoes australia , officials said Tuesday, after declaring a military counter-operation was finished.
The attack on the Balochistan Police College, located 20 kilometres east of provincial capital Quetta www.cheapbasketballaustralia.com , began at around 11.10pm Monday (2.10am Tuesday, Singapore time), with gunfire continuing to ring out from the site hours later.
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Sarfaraz Bugti, the home minister of Balochistan province, told reporters assembled at the site early Tuesday that the sprawling compound had been attacked by three militants equipped with suicide jackets cheap adidas basketball shoes australia , revising down an earlier estimate of ""five to six"" assailants.
""They first targeted the watch tower sentry, and after exchanging fire killed him and were able to enter the academy grounds,"" he said.
Major General Sher Afgan nike basketball shoes australia , chief of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Balochistan, which led the counter-operation, said ""the attack was over in around three hours after we arrived"".
He added that communications intercepts showed the militants belonged to the Al-Alimi faction of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group - which is affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban.
""They were in communication with operatives in Afghanistan adidas basketball shoes australia ,"" he said. The group itself has not claimed the attack.
Bugti said the compound was housing some 700 recruits at the time of the attack, hundreds of whom were rescued.
The area was plunged into darkness when the counter-offensive was launched, while security personnel created a cordon and ambulances zoomed in and out Men's Adidas James Harden LS 2 Black White Australia , taking the injured to hospitals. Military helicopters circled overhead.
As the battle continued, police and civil administration officials at the site told AFP they had heard several loud blasts.
A man who identified himself as a police cadet told reporters: ""I saw three men in camouflage whose faces were hidden carrying Kalashnikovs. They started firing and entered the dormitory but I managed to escape over a wall.""
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Mineral-rich but impoverished Balochistan, Pakistan's largest province Men's Adidas Harden Vol. 2 MVP Black Gold Australia , is beset by sectarian strife, Islamist violence and an on-off separatist insurgency that has lasted for decades.
The army has also repeatedly been accused by international rights groups of abuses in Balochistan, particularly against nationalists demanding autonomy and a greater share of the region's resources.
In August Men's Nike Kyrie 4 White Black Australia , a suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital claimed by the Islamic State group and the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction of the Pakistani Taliban killed 73 people, including many of the city's lawyer community who had gone there to mourn the fatal shooting of a colleague.
Pakistan has been battling an Islamist insurgency since shortly after it decided to ally with the US following its invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Violence has declined in recent years following a series of military offensives in the northwest border areas as well as concerted efforts to block the militants' sources of funding.
But the remnants of militant groups are still able to carry out periodic bloody attacks, particularly in the northwest.
Monday night's attack also came a day after separatist gunmen for the Baloch Liberation Army on a motorcycle shot dead two coast guards and a civilian and wounded a shopkeeper in a remote southwest coastal town in the same province.
Balochistan is also a key region for China's ambitious US$46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure project linking its western province of Xinjiang to the Arabian Sea via Pakistan.
Security problems have mired CPEC in the past with numerous separatist attacks Men's Nike Kyrie 4 Triple Black Australia , but China has said it is confident the Pakistani military is in control.
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DENVER， the United States， Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- John Yee， a Flying Tigers veteran who just celebrated his 95th birthday， remembers the moment when Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor.
He was in southwest China's biggest city of Kunming at the time， handpicked as one of 30 translators to work with the Flying Tigers there.
""We felt badly for the Americans， but to be honest， we all jumped with joy. It was a day of hope that something might stop the daily bombings of our cities and towns by the Japanese，"" Yee told Xinhua.
Yee says that his fellow Chinese translators all talked about having ""a very powerful ally in the United States， and that we would no longer have to fight the Japanese alone.""
During World War Two， Japanese slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Nanking， capital of China at that time. Yee was 17-years-old then and living in Kunming.
""It was a horrible， sickening event， and shocked everybody in China. It started a long period of atrocities committed by the Japanese military against innocent Chinese people，"" Yee said Monday in an open letter to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe， who will pay a visit to Pearl Harbor later this month.
""Just like Hitler trying to exterminate the Jews in Europe， the Japanese committed genocide against the Chinese，"" Yee noted. ""But Western educators and media have yet to recognize the extent of the atrocities committed by Japan.""
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