Attack on Police Academy – level 1

27-10-2016 07:00

This news is about a police academy. It is in Pakistan. There are around 200 cadets there. People attack the academy. This happens on Monday.

Around 100 people are wounded. Fifty-nine people die. Attackers take some cadets hostage.

The attackers have vests. These vests have bombs in them. Two attackers explode. One attacker dies. The attackers are from an Islamist group.

Difficult words: cadet (a police student), wounded (hurt; when something bad happens to someone’s body), hostage (a person who is kept by an attacker; the hostage can be set free if you do what the attacker wants).

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