Five suspected Islamic militants of a banned extremist group were killed, four wounded and two arrested in over a five-hour long shootout with police and Rangers in Pakistan's southern Karachi port city.The exchange of fierce fire started when a police team raided a house in Landhi district of the city on a tip-off that militants of an outlawed terrorist group were hiding there. Militants traded fire with police with small arms.
The shootout left two policemen killed and seven others wounded, said Akhtar Zamin, the caretaker interior minister of Sindh Province, while talking to media. He said five militants were killed and four were wounded. Two wounded militants were arrested while trying to escape, he said, adding that four women and three children were also arrested from the house.Police sources said the militants are believed to be the members of Jundullah (Army of God), a Sunni Muslim organization that has close links with Al-Qaeda and involved in two assassination attempts on President Musharraf in 2003.