This time it’s Lahore police academy: At least 3 terrorists captured alive

A group of gunmen, some in police uniforms, attacked a police academy today and held it for hours, seizing hostages, throwing grenades and killing at least 11 people before being overpowered by Pakistani commandos.

Six militants were arrested and eight died in the eight-hour battle to retake the compound on the outskirts of this city, said Rao Iftikhar, a top government official in Punjab province.

(Reuters quoted Interior Ministry Secretary Kamal Shah as saying that four terrorists were killed and three arrested. Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said the militants were believed to be fighters loyal to Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud who had come from the South Waziristan tribal region.The entire planning was done there, Malik told a news conference in Lahore. He said one of the men captured was an Afghan who arrived 15 days earlier and had rented a house there.) As the siege ended, black-clad Pakistani commandos fired their guns in the air in celebration at the top of the building, shouting “Allah ho Akbar”.

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