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Four TTP militants sentenced to death for Lahore prison attack | |
2015-02-26 | |
[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday sentenced four Death Eaters to death for killing 10 prison staff during an attack in Lahore three years ago, officials said. The four men belonging to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), a bad boy group with links to Al Qaeda, rubbed out the officers as they slept during a dawn raid on their hostel in July 2012. "The court has awarded death sentence to four Death Eaters for the 2012 attack on jail staff," special prosecutor Sheikh Saeed told AFP. A court official confirmed the sentences. The convicts were also fined Rs1.8 million each, he added. The four TTP bad boys, all in their 20s, confessed to carrying out the attack on the residential quarters for prison staff in the densely populated Lahore suburb of Ichra, Saeed said. After killing 10 during the dawn raid armed with Kalashnikov rifles and hand grenades, they then stormed another building where around 30 police prison officers were sleeping.
The four men were incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! about a year after the attack when they were caught with Kalashnikov rifles and hand grenades at a bus stand in Lahore. | |
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