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Taliban attack: SP amongst five security personnel killed in Peshawar
By Riaz AhmadPublished: October 15, 2012
PESHAWAR: Five people, including Superintendent of Police Rural Khurshid Khan, were killed while 10 police personnel and FC men were injured when the Taliban attacked two check posts of Mattani police station on the outskirts of Peshawar on Sunday night.
In a surprise attack on the Ghaziabad and Fronteir Road check posts at around 10pm, militants equipped with RPG-7 rockets and heavy machine guns, fired shots at the Mattani police station.
Despite it being pitch dark, police and FC personnel retaliated with gun fire and hand to hand combat, which continued for almost 45 minutes.
Militants had occupied the high ground around the check posts and fired from there.
Talking to The Express Tribune, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Fazal-e-Mula said that SP Khurshid had reached the spot after the attack and was leading his men when he was hit by bullets. His gunman was also among the dead.
SP Khurshid is among the dead along with other men, said Fazal-e-Mula.
A large contingent of police, led by the SP Khurshid and DSP Fazal-e-Mula, from the Badabher police station had been sent to the area
Militants over ran the Ghaziabad check post building and torched it completely, also killing several Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel at the check post.
The injured included seven FC personnel and three policemen. They were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital (LRH).
This was the second such attack in the past 12 hours between police and militants. Earlier in the morning an FC constable was killed by a militant sniper on the Frontier Road in Sheikhan in the jurisdiction of Badabher police station.
Talking to The Express Tribune, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Matani Fazal-e-Mula said that dozens of militants had attacked their check posts and they had called for a large police contingent into the area to carry out a search operation for militants, still hiding in the dark.
By Riaz AhmadPublished: October 15, 2012
PESHAWAR: Five people, including Superintendent of Police Rural Khurshid Khan, were killed while 10 police personnel and FC men were injured when the Taliban attacked two check posts of Mattani police station on the outskirts of Peshawar on Sunday night.
In a surprise attack on the Ghaziabad and Fronteir Road check posts at around 10pm, militants equipped with RPG-7 rockets and heavy machine guns, fired shots at the Mattani police station.
Despite it being pitch dark, police and FC personnel retaliated with gun fire and hand to hand combat, which continued for almost 45 minutes.
Militants had occupied the high ground around the check posts and fired from there.
Talking to The Express Tribune, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Fazal-e-Mula said that SP Khurshid had reached the spot after the attack and was leading his men when he was hit by bullets. His gunman was also among the dead.
SP Khurshid is among the dead along with other men, said Fazal-e-Mula.
A large contingent of police, led by the SP Khurshid and DSP Fazal-e-Mula, from the Badabher police station had been sent to the area
Militants over ran the Ghaziabad check post building and torched it completely, also killing several Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel at the check post.
The injured included seven FC personnel and three policemen. They were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital (LRH).
This was the second such attack in the past 12 hours between police and militants. Earlier in the morning an FC constable was killed by a militant sniper on the Frontier Road in Sheikhan in the jurisdiction of Badabher police station.
Talking to The Express Tribune, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Matani Fazal-e-Mula said that dozens of militants had attacked their check posts and they had called for a large police contingent into the area to carry out a search operation for militants, still hiding in the dark.
