PAKISTAN: Four dead as gunmen attack Pakistani official's compound

Record ID: 353799

  • Title: PAKISTAN: Four dead as gunmen attack Pakistani official's compound
  • Date: 18th February 2013
  • Summary: PESHAWAR , PAKISTAN (FEBRUARY 18, 2013) (REUTERS) SECURITY OUTSIDE POLITICAL OFFICIAL'S OFFICE THAT WAS ATTACKED VARIOUS OF PEOPLE COMING OUT OF ATTACKED COMPOUND WITH RAISED HANDS VARIOUS OF MILITARY SOLDIERS GOING TOWARDS ATTACKED COMPOUND VARIOUS OF AMBULANCES LEAVING ATTACK SITE (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) SHARIFULLAH KHAN, SAYING: "When you are entering the political (agent'
  • Embargoed: 5th March 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Pakistan
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Crime,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA8TL78NZQZIT72TDJDPA1ZPL9P
  • Story Text: Four security guards are killed in the Pakistani city of Peshawar as gunmen wearing police uniforms raid the compound of a senior government dignitary, officials say.

    Four security guards were killed in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday (February 18) when gunmen wearing police uniforms raided the compound of a senior government dignitary, officials said.
    Two explosions were heard, followed by gunfire at the compound of top political official Muttahirzeb Khan, where tribal officials and members of political parties had gathered to hold talks.
    Officials suspect the attackers were suicide bombers. It was not immediately known if they survived.
    "When you are entering the political (agent's) office, there is a fence outside. A man in paramilitary uniform was standing next to the fence. I do not know if he was actually a paramilitary person or not, but he seemed to have been hit. When he moved, I suddenly thought he must be a suicide. So I stepped back, and as soon as I stepped back, he exploded," Sharifullah Khan, a tribal politician told Reuters Television.
    He added that he saw two bodies and some injured people lying on the ground inside the compound in the north-western city.
    There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. But the Pakistani Taliban have carried out similar operations.
    Militants have stepped up attacks across Pakistan just months ahead of a national election. On Saturday, 85 people, most of them Shi'ites, were killed in the south-western city of Quetta in an attack blamed on Sunni militants.
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