Forces foil militants' bid to seize cadets in Wana attack

A swift response by security forces foiled an attempt by Taliban militants to take cadets hostage at an army-run college overnight when a suicide car bomber and five other attackers targeted the facility in northwestern Pakistan, police said on Tuesday.

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The attack began on Monday evening when the bomber tried to storm the cadet college in Wana, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the Afghan border which until recent years served as a base for the Taliban, Al Qaeda and other foreign militants.

According to Alamgir Mahsud, the local police chief, two of the militants were quickly killed by troops on Monday evening while three militants managed to enter the sprawling compound before being cornered in an administrative block. The army's commandoes were among the forces conducting a clearance operation and an intermittent exchange of fire is ongoing, Mahsud said.