PAKISTAN: Five Pakistani policemen killed in attack by Taliban

Record ID: 352690

  • Title: PAKISTAN: Five Pakistani policemen killed in attack by Taliban
  • Date: 26th June 2011
  • Summary: KULACHI, DERA ISMAIL KHAN, PAKISTAN (JUNE 25, 2011) (REUTERS) POLICE STATION/CAR CARRYING POLICEMEN ENTERING BUILDING VARIOUS OF POLICE STATION PARAMILITARY SOLDIERS NEAR POLICE STATION GATE/SOUND OF GUNFIRE IS HEARD SOLDIERS TAKING POSITIONS CLOSE OF GUN HELD BY POLICEMAN VARIOUS OF SMOKE BILLOWING FROM POLICE BUILDING (NIGHT SCENES) VARIOUS OF DESTROYED CARS AT P
  • Embargoed: 11th July 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Pakistan, Pakistan
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Crime,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA5C1NG6ILC2VUUYDFBJAIVUW79
  • Story Text: Suspected Taliban militants stormed a police station in a town in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday (June 25), killing at least five policemen, police and witnesses said.
    Armed with hand grenades and automatic weapons, at least three assailants attacked the police station in Kulachi, a small town close to the volatile tribal region of South Waziristan.
    Local police cheif Imtiaz Shan told Reuters the attackers threw grenades and opened fire as they stormed into the police station, adding that at least five policemen had died.
    He said police and paramilitary reinforcements had been sent to take back control of the police station.
    Mohammad Raees, a witness, said the three attackers were riding a motorbike and one them was wearing a burqa which was thrown away as the attack began.
    South Waziristan is a major al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary on the Afghan border.
    Militants have stepped up attacks, many of them on Pakistani security forces, in what they say is retaliation for the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALS in a raid in the garrison town of Abbottabad last month.
    They have attacked a heavily guarded navy base in Karachi, killed nearly 100 people in twin suicide bombings on a paramilitary compound in the northwest and carried out a car bomb attack on a U.S. consulate convoy in the city of Peshawar.
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