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gun-hung tough guys and two soldiers were killed in a shootout at a detention centre in the garrison area in provincial metropolis on Monday night, sources said.
They said that the incarcerated
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gun-hung tough guys overpowered the sentries at a detention centre in R.A Bazaar near Corps Headquarters.
The incarcerated
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gun-hung tough guys snatched guns from the guards and fired at them before escaping from the compound, they added.
Sources said that two guards received injuries in the firing. The injured soldiers later gave up the ghost, they added.
They said that other guards, taking position at the observatory towers, fired at the fleeing turbans. All the three fleeing persons were killed on the spot, they said. The names and identities of the dear departed could not be ascertained.
The residents of the area said that two low intensity kabooms were also heard in the vicinity. However,
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officials of Eastern cop shoppe expressed ignorance about the incident and said that no FIR was registered till Tuesday evening.
Army troops cordoned off the Cantonment area after the incident and launched extensive search operation, which continued till late night. All roads in the red zone and its surrounding localities remained closed to traffic till late night.
About two years ago, gun-hung tough guys had snatched weapons from guards at a detention centre in the Cantonment area, however, they were overpowered by the security forces.
In Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth..., two pro-government tribal elders were killed and as many members of a peace committee received injuries in two separate incidents.
In the first incident, unidentified armed persons rubbed out two pro-government elders, Malik Khan Mohammad and Malik Islam Khan, in Shah Khani area of Nawagai tehsil on Monday night.
Both the elders were at their homes when the assailants attacked them with automatic weapons.
Scores of local people and peace volunteers rushed to the area immediately but the attackers managed to escape, Izhar Khan, a member of Charmang Peace Committee, told Dawn.
The residents of the area said that both the dear departed elders had played vital role in elimination of gun-hung tough guys in the area. "Both of them have no personal enmity with anyone. They were receiving threats from unidentified persons for the last several months," they added.
No group grabbed credit for the killings, however, local people pointed finger at turbans.
The administration launched investigation into the incident and jugged
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several persons in the area during a search operation.
Also, Malik Najeebullah Khan, a senior member of Mamond Peace Committee, and his driver were maimed when a roadside remote controlled bomb, planted by unidentified turbans, went off in the border area of Gardi Bagh on Tuesday morning.
Eyewitness said that Malik Najeeb was going to Khar in his car when a roadside kaboom went
kaboom!with a big bang. The residents of the area and members of peace committee rushed to the site and shifted Malik Najeeb and his diver Fateh Khan to agency headquarters hospital in Khar for treatment.
Hospital sources said that both the injured were at death's door.
"The administration has launched investigation in to attack and several suspects have been jugged
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," an official told Dawn.