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Gunmen attack Pakistan hospital in Lahore, kill 12
LAHORE
Mon May 31, 2010 4:37pm EDT
LAHORE (Reuters) - At least three gunmen attacked a hospital in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday morning, killing 12 people and holding several hostage before escaping, a senior doctor told Reuters.
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"They barged into the hospital building and opened indiscriminate fire," said Javed Ikram, Chief Executive of Jinnah hospital.
He said at least 12 people were killed in the firing while some had been held hostage.
A Reuters reporter saw the bodies of four policemen.
"There are blood patches at the entrance of the hospital building," he said. "Pillows, biscuits and other food stuff and shoes are strewn on the floor."
People and patients who were able ran from the hospital and television footage showed exhausted looking women climbing over security fences to escape.
The attackers themselves fled after the mayhem, officials said.
"They escaped from the scene," Lahore commissioner Khusro Pervez Khan told Reuters. "We are in hot pursuit. We are chasing them. One of them was wounded."
He put casualties lower, at five killed and three wounded.
Dozens of people wounded in Friday's attacks on two mosques of a minority religious community in the city were being treated in the hospital, which is a major institution in the city. More than 80 people were killed in those attacks.
A witness told Reuters that a police commando team had stormed into the hospital.
One hospital official, who declined to be identified, said the gunmen killed one of the attackers from Friday's assault who was being treated in the Intensive Care Unit, but other reports contradicted this.
(Reporting by Mubasher Bukhari in Lahore, and Kamran Haider and Zeeshan Haider in Islamabad; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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May 31, 2010 4:03pm EDT
Was this a Muslim terrorist attack? I’m sure if it was a Jewish attack then it would be in the title
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May 31, 2010 4:53pm EDT
@mophi it was a terrorist attack on Muslims in a Muslim state. Not some Jewish state’s Attack on a Humanitarian Aid Flotilla in international waters. I guess that clears things up for you.
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