Militants storm police academy, killing at least 59

Up to six gunmen head straight to dorms housing cadets and trainees and open fire

Militants wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy in the southwestern city of Quetta overnight, killing at least 59 people, mostly police cadets and recruits, and waging a ferocious gunbattle with troops that lasted into early hours on Tuesday.

Pakistani officials feared the death toll could rise further, as the four-hour siege, one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistan's security forces in recent years, left 117 wounded, some of them in critical condition.