LAHORE: Terrorists attacked three buildings across Lahore, leaving 20 people, including five attackers, dead and 29 injured.
A group of terrorists attacked the Manawan Police Academy, a building of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the Elite Police Academy almost simultaneously.
ELITE POLICE ACADEMY, BEDIAN
Thirteen terrorists attacked the Elite Police Academy in Bedian, near Lahore, Police Commissioner Khusro Parvez told DawnNews. Seven people were critically injured, as security forces were engaged in exchange of fire with the attackers for over four hours.
After attacking the building, the terrorists took an unknown number of people hostage but they have now been released. According to SSP Operations Shafique Gujjar, five militants were killed in the commando operation, which has now ended and security officials are clearing the building.
Seven people were injured in the Bedian attack. out of the 13 terrorists involved, three were females, said an official.
FIA BUILDING, TEMPLE ROAD, LAHORE
Police officials told DawnNews that the attack on the FIA building killed seven people, four of whom were government employees while one was a police soldier. The operation has now been called off and security officials are clearing out the building. An unconfirmed number of injured people have been shifted to nearby hospitals. A suicide jacket was also recovered from the FIA building.
MANAWAN POLICE ACADEMY, MANAWAN
At the Manawan Police Academy, a number of terrorists entered the building and launched grenade and suicide attacks. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up while five police soldiers were also killed and over a dozen of them were injured. A gun-battle between security officials and terrorists went on for almost two hours as two blasts went off. Police officials say that the operation is now over and security officials are clearing out the building.
Hospital sources told DawnNews that seven dead bodies were brought to the Ganga Ram hospital, of which one was of the suicide bomber. Names of those killed in the FIA attack are, Zaheer Afzal, Syed Iqramul Haq, Mubashir Siddique and Rana Farooq and Shahzain Younus (police inspectors).
While speaking to reporters Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the militants came from Punjab. ‘They are involved in guerrilla war. First they were active in NWFP, now they are engaged in Punjab. They are terrorists paid to destabilise Pakistan,’ Malik said. [Source: Dawn]
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