Islamabad TV station attacked with explosives, 1 wounded

Attackers on a motorcycle lobbed grenades and opened fire at a Pakistani television station on Wednesday, wounding one person, the station said.

Update: 2016-01-14 00:50 GMT

Attackers on a motorcycle lobbed grenades and opened fire at a Pakistani television station on Wednesday, wounding one person, the station said.

The assailants at ARY News’ Islamabad office dropped pamphlets linked to the Islamic State’s (ISIS) self-declared province of Khorasan in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ARY reported on its website.

Security guards chased away the drive-by attackers, it said, and an editor hit by shrapnel in the head was hospitalised.The pamphlets said the ISIS claimed credit for the attack.

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