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16 security men, eight militants, two civilians killed in terrorist attacks in Lahore |
At least 26 persons were killed including 16 security personnel, eight militants and two civilians in three different terror attacks that rocked Lahore on Thursday. Less than a week after the brazen commando style terror raid on the Pakistan Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, armed gunmen unleashed a reign of terror in Lahore targeting three separate security installations in the city, the Federal Investigation Agency building, the Manawan Police Training Academy, and the Elite Police Center. The 'chained' attacks, as they were referred to by Interior Minister Rehman Malik, threw Lahore into chaos
early Thursday morning. In the first attack on the FIA building, five to six gunmen
stormed into the building premises and took several hostages. After an intense
gun battle, security forces managed to free all the hostages, and killed two militants
there. This was the second terror attack on the FIA building in the last year
and a half. At least 24 people, including 13 FIA officials were killed and over
200 were injured when two bombs ripped through the FIA building and an another
building in March 2008. Soon after the officials announced the FIA building siege
to be over, a second band of gunmen raided the Manawan Police Training Academy
on the outskirts of the city in which five police officers and four militants
were killed, The Dawn reports. This was the second terror attack on the academy
this year. Militants had launched a similar attack in March that sparked an eight-hour
standoff with the army that left 12 people dead. The third attack took place at
the Bedian Road Center of the Elite Police Force. About eight gunmen scaled the
wall of the training center and started firing indiscriminately. Militants also
lobbed several hand grenades inside the training center premises. The three synchronized
attacks clearly highlights that the Pakistan Taliban is determined to spread its
rein of terror despite the death of their leader, Baitullah Mehsud in an US drone
strike in August this year. In another incident, at least ten people were reportedly
killed and 15 others injured in a powerful bomb blast outside a police station
in Kohat. The blast occurred when a suicide attacker rammed his explosive-laden
vehicle into the Sadar Police Station building killing ten people on the spot.
Media reports said that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed the responsibility
for all the terror incidents, however, but the same could not be confirmed till
reports last came in. |
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