Rawalpindi: Outlaws kill 2 during search operation

[Xracer]

RAWALPINDI: Unknown desperadoes holed-up in their den opened fire on policemen during a search operation here killing two including a Elite Force commando, Geo News reported Thursday night.

Sources said a number of police pursuing a crackdown against outlaws came under a sniper fire in Katarian, a suburb of Rawalpindi. The shooting claimed the lives of a cop and a citizen.

“We have lost one of our best men in the surprise attack”, the police said.

More details are awaited.

 

[muse]

Does this read like a surprise attack on the criminals?? Wasn't it more a surprise attack on the LEA? And how would the criminals know about the LEA attack, if not from within the LEA?

 

[Star Wars]

This sounds more like they were waiting for the search operation to start.....

 

[muse]

Rawalpindi: Elite Force ASI among 3 gunned down


February 15, 2013 - Updated 310 PKT
From Web Edition



[Rawalpindi: Elite Force ASI among 3 gunned down]


RAWALPINDI: At least three people including a policeman and two real brothers were killed in an ambush here on Thursday night, Geo News reported.

Sources said some Elite Force commandoes and other agents were waylaid when they were on their way to conduct a raid in Katarian, a suburb of Rawalpindi.

The shooting claimed the life of an Elite Force ASI, Hasan Naeem, while it left another officer, Asad, critically bullet-wounded.

Men of law were not the only ones who succumbed to this surprise attack. According to sources, two blood brothers, namely Jamshed and Sajjad also got killed in the ambush. Questions like whether they were cops or agents or none of the two and what were they doing with a police party on a special mission yet begged answers.

The dead bodies were in the Holy Family Hospital for medicoleagl procedures, sources told Geo News.

Police have jumpstarted the investigation into the case by arresting one, Malik Shumail, a real uncle of the deceased brothers. Cops handcuffed him right in the hospital as soon as he arrived there, sources said.
He was in the first wave of the relatives who showed up at the hospital after the word of ambush reached them

 

[jha]

Sniper Fire is not surprise attack. They must be waiting for the Search team . Question is : How did they get to know of the operation in advance..?

 

[Jango]

Outskirts of the twin cities, especially Tarnol area is a hot spot for terrorists, that whole locality is infested with outlaws.

Could turn into another Lyari if not properly looked at.