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Pakland - 11 Police officers dead
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Quetta - two gunmen on motorcycles attack a vehicle carrying police trainees, killing 11.
Here's the story from Arab Times (Kuwait) ...
QUETTA: Eleven police trainees from Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslim community were Sunday shot dead and another nine were injured in a sectarian attack in the southwest city of Quetta, police said.
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"Two men came riding on a motorbike and opened fire with a Kalashnikov at the vehicle carrying the police recruits to their school at 4.00 pm," Raja Ishtiaq, the officer in charge of a local police station, told AFP. "Ten others were injured in the shoot-out while five remained unhurt," Ishtiaq said. One of the injured later died at hospital, he said. "It is a sectarian attack because all the police cadets were from the Shiite sect," the Deputy Inspector General of Balochistan police, Humayun Jogezai, told AFP.
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"We were returning to Police Training School from our homes after spending the weekend and suddenly two men came on a motorbike and open fire on our vehicle," M. Ali, one of the survivors told AFP from hospital. "Yes it is a sectarian attack because we all are Shiite and ethnic Hazaras," Ali said. Jogezai said police had launched a search for the killers and had sent teams to different areas. "Police have erected barricades at various points in the city and are checking motorcyclists and other vehicles," Jogezai said. The shooting is the second sectarian attack in the region this week. On Friday two armed men riding on a motorbike sprayed bullets at Shiite activist Syed Niaz Hussain Shah, 50, when he was returning home from his office in the city.
Posted by: Frank G 2003-06-08 |
