Ban expresses distress at deadly attack in eastern Pakistan

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his distress regarding yesterday’s deadly attack on a police academy in eastern Pakistan, voicing hope that authorities will investigate the incident and determine who was behind it.

According to media reports, several people were killed and scores of others injured when militants attacked the facility in the city of Lahore, near Pakistan’s border with India.

“He extends his sympathies to the families of those killed and to the injured,” Mr. Ban’s spokesperson, Michele Montas, told reporters in New York.