Most students had gone home due to the long weekend. The hostel of the directorate was officially closed on Friday as the country celebrated Eid Miladun Nabi. This is the second attack in a week in Peshawar; on the same day, senior police official Mohammad Ashraf Noor was killed in a suicide attack in the Hayatabad area of the city. Taliban gunmen killed at least 20 people last year in an attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, while over a hundred children were killed in a militant raid on Army Public School on December 16, 2014.