PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Four or more Taliban militants disguised as women attacked a university dormitory in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least nine people and wounding at least 30 others, officials said.

Local news outlets, however, gave a higher death count and reported that 11 people were killed in the early morning attack on a boarding facility at the Agriculture Training Institute, located within the sprawling compound of University of Peshawar.

The militants wore burqas, women’s garments that fully cover the body and head, when they arrived at the gate of the institute in a rickshaw. They shot and wounded a security guard and then moved toward the dormitory, according to Islam Zeb, the deputy commissioner of Peshawar.