Showing posts with label Datta Khel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Datta Khel. Show all posts

Friday, July 16, 2010

CCTV footage of Garhi Shahu worship place attack obtained

Daily Dawn, Pakistan
Pakistan

CCTV footage of Garhi Shahu worship place attack obtained
Friday, 16 Jul, 2010

Seventy people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the attack on the worship place in Garhi Shahu. - Photo by AP/File /
Seventy people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the attack on the worship place in Garhi Shahu. — Photo by AP/File

LAHORE: DawnNews has obtained the CCTV footage of the May 28 terrorist attack on the Ahmedi worship place in Lahore’s Garhi Shahu area.

The footage was recorded from a camera placed outside “Darul Zikr”, the Ahmadi prayer house.

The footage shows two heavily-armed terrorists enter the place of worship at the time of prayers and shooting at worshippers.

People panicked as a result and the footage shows them running haphazardly to save their lives.

The terrorists took to different rooms in the prayer house and shot at people after which they entered the main hall and blew themselves up.

Seventy people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the attack on the worship place in Garhi Shahu.

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Friday, July 2, 2010

Ten arrested for attacks on Ahmedis in Lahore

Daily Dawn, Pakistan
Metropolitan 

Ten arrested for attacks on Ahmedis in Lahore
Friday, 02 Jul, 2010

Police claimed to have recovered at least 20,000 kg of explosives, 100 Kalashnikovs and 18 suicide jackets from different areas of Lahore. - File photo
Police claimed to have recovered at least 20,000 kg of explosives, 100 Kalashnikovs and 18 suicide jackets from different areas of Lahore. — File photo

LAHORE: At least 10 people, including two masterminds, allegedly involved in attack on the Garhi Shahu worship place of Ahmedi community have been arrested on Friday by Lahore police along with a huge cache of arms and ammunitions.

Police claimed to have recovered at least 20,000 kg of explosives, 100 Kalashnikovs and 18 suicide jackets from different areas of the city.

According to sources, the two masterminds had gone to the North Waziristan’s Datta Khel area and one of them holds a diploma in engineering.

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