LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistani police fired tear gas and charged at student protesters who ransacked a college building Thursday, as anger spread over an alleged on-campus rape.

SSP says heavy police contingent deployed outside colleges; LHC summons Punjab IG, college registrar; Section 144 imposed as educational institutes shut.

Pakistani police clashed with student protesters across multiple cities after reports of an alleged rape at a Lahore college went viral. Violence erup

Protests erupted in Lahore after reports spread online that a student was raped by a security guard at a Punjab College for Women campus. The incident was first shared on social media over the weekend. Varying accounts state that the rape took place on Thursday or Friday evening in a campus basement.

LAHORE, Pakistan — Authorities in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province shut all schools and universities for two days on Friday in an attempt to contain the spread of protests by students over an alleged on-campus rape. The closures in Pakistan's most populous province affect an estimated 18 million students.

Over 24 students protesting against the alleged assault on a female student from a private college have been arrested, while a case has been registered against 250 unidentified individuals in Lahore on Thursday. The case was filed at Harbanspura Police Station by Sub-Inspector Usman Akbar.

Pakistani police fired tear gas and charged student protesters who ransacked a college building Thursday, as anger spread over an alleged on-campus rape. Tensions have been high on college campuses since reports about the alleged rape in the eastern city of Lahore went viral on social media,