Three heavily-armed terrorists from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_–_Khorasan_Province" id="mwAVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Islamic State – Khorasan Province">Islamic State – Khorasan Province</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Quetta_police_training_college_attack" id="mwAV0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2016 Quetta police training college attack">open fire on and eventually suicide bomb</a> a police training centre in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balochistan" id="mwAV4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Balochistan">Balochistan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan" id="mwAV8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, killing at least 59 cadets and injuring more than 165 others.<sup about="#mwt126" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"}}' id="cite_ref-23" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_24#cite_note-23" id="mwAWA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 23;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWE">[23]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"><cite about="#mwt123" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFMasood2016">Masood, Salman (24 October 2016). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/world/asia/quetta-police-militants-attack.html" id="mwCS8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"At Least 59 Die as Militants Storm Police College Near Quetta, Pakistan"</a>. <i id="mwCTA"><a href="./The_New_York_Times" id="mwCTE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCTI">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCTM">24 October</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt123" class="Z3988" id="mwCTQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=At+Least+59+Die+as+Militants+Storm+Police+College+Near+Quetta%2C+Pakistan&amp;rft.date=2016-10-24&amp;rft.aulast=Masood&amp;rft.aufirst=Salman&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F10%2F25%2Fworld%2Fasia%2Fquetta-police-militants-attack.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+24"></span></span>