DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — A swift response by security forces foiled an attempt by Pakistani Taliban militants to take cadets hostage at an army-run college overnight when a suicide car bomber and five other attackers targeted the facility in northwestern Pakistan, police said Tuesday.

The attack began Monday evening when the bomber tried to storm the cadet college in Wana, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the Afghan border which until recent years served as a base for the Pakistani Taliban, al-Qaida and other foreign militants.

According to Alamgir Mahsud, the local police chief, two of the militants were quickly killed by troops Monday evening while three militants managed to enter the sprawling compound before being cornered in an administrative block. The army’s com

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