At least 60 people were killed and 118 injured when militants attacked a police training academy in Quetta, Pakistan, late Monday night, government officials said.
Major General Sher Afgan, Chief of the Paramilitary Frontier Corps, told reporters Tuesday that Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-jhangvi was behind the attack -- an al Qaeda-linked militant group that has repeatedly carried out deadly attacks on the country's Shiite Muslim minority in recent years.
Three days of mourning have been announced in Balochistan province, where Quetta is located, for the dozens of dead. Most of them were police cadets.
One attacker was killed by security forces and two others died when they detonated the bombs they were carrying, said Sarfraz Bugti, Home Minister for Balochistan province.
He added that the assault, which ended in the early hours of Tuesday, targeted a hostel at the academy. At least 260 cadets were rescued.
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