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| Gun battle at Indian Punjab police station ends, ten killed |
| 2015-07-28 |
| [DAWN] India tightened security on the border with Pakistain on Monday after its military said heavily armed gunnies, dressed in army uniforms, stormed a cop shoppe in the northern frontier state of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... killing ten people and wounding several others. Indian police managed to overcome the heavily armed gunnies after a 12-hour shootout. Four coppers including the local superintendent and three civilians also died in the operation in the usually calm northern state of Punjab. "The police superintendent fought them bravely but unfortunately he was shot in the head and was struck down in his prime," said Anand Kumar, part of the special forces team that entered the building. The assault only ended at around 5pm when security forces finally entered the cop shoppe where the unidentified gunnies had been holed up. The siege focused on an abandoned building where the attackers were holed up. It dragged on because security forces had wanted to capture at least one of the gunnies alive, a senior government source said. The group of attackers came in a white Maruti-Suzuki car, dressed in army uniforms, said Harcharan Bains, an adviser to Indian Punjab's chief minister. The gunnies hijacked a car and then fired at the bus and a roadside eatery before attacking a cop shoppe near Gurdaspur, a border town in Punjab, police said. Eight injured people were hospitalised, seven of them at death's door, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Five bombs were also found planted on a railway track in the state, suggesting an attempted coordinated attack around the time when India is marking the anniversary of a near-war with Pakistain in northern Kashmire in 1999. Jitendra Singh, a junior minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office, alleged Pakistain's involvement. "There have been earlier reports of Pakistain infiltration and cross-border mischief in this area," said Singh, whose constituency in the Jammu region borders Gurdaspur. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... director general of Punjab police, Sumedh Singh Saini said, "It is too early to say who the attackers were." Pakistain has denied any involvement in insurgencies in Indian Punjab and Jammu and Kashmire. Home Minister Rajnath Singh said he had ordered increased security on the border with Pakistain, which condemned the assault in a statement. Singh will make a detailed statement over the attack in Parliament on Tuesday. "The situation is under control," Singh told news hounds. Police are investigating whether the gunnies came from the Indian portion of Kashmire, or from across the border. A number of other Indian states were also reported to be on high alert following the attack in Punjab. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Pakistain - failed state exporting it's evil |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-07-28 07:32 |