Heavily-armed militants wearing suicide vests stormed a police academy in Quetta, killing at least 59 people and wounding dozens more in one of the deadliest extremist attacks this year.

Three gunmen burst into the sprawling academy, targeting sleeping quarters home to some 700 recruits, sending terrified young men fleeing. “I saw three men in camouflage whose faces were hidden carrying Kalashnikovs,” one cadet told reporters.