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Militants storm Pakistani police center
Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:01am EDT
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants holed up in a police training center in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday after storming the building, with estimates of the dead ranging up to 20.
Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said 52 police were wounded in the attack but gave no word on the number killed, while Geo News television channel said the toll was 20.
Paramilitary troops laid siege, firing from rooftops of surrounding buildings, while the gunmen returned fire and threw grenades to keep the police at bay.
"Our elite squad has surrounded the area. God willing, now we will get into the building," Mushtaq Sukhera, senior police official told journalists at the scene.
"I have counted 12 bodies but I don't know exactly how many have been killed," Mohammad Raza, another police officer said.
One wounded policeman said there were 15 to 20 gunmen in the building. It was unclear if any police were being held hostage.
The assault came less than a month after a dozen gunmen attacked Sri Lanka's cricket team in the city, killing six police guards and a bus driver. Those gunmen escaped.
The latest brazen attack will inevitably heighten fears about the mounting insecurity in nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Islamist militants have launched a campaign of violence to destabilize the Muslim state of 170 million people, and the one-year-old civilian government's ability to meet the challenge.
U.S. President Barack Obama made support for President Asif Ali Zardari's government a centerpiece of a review of policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan that was announced on Friday, and which made annihilation of al Qaeda the United States' principle objective.
ATTACKED DURING MORNING DRILL
Police official Sukhera said around 850 young cadets attended the training center but police were unsure how many were inside at the time of the attack, which began at around 7 a.m. (0200 GMT).
Television channels said several hundred trainees were at the center when the attackers, some dressed as policemen, struck.
"Some gunmen entered the center, threw hand grenades and then started firing," said an intelligence agency official who declined to be identified.
Around 15 to 20 attackers were believed to be inside the training center, a policeman told Geo News television channel while having his head bandaged. Continued...
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