[DAWN] TOBA TEK SINGH/LAHORE: A suspected bully boy went kaboom!after a team of police and intelligence agencies personnel raided a house in Pir Mahal town, 25km from here on Thursday.
Toba District Police Officer Shehzad Akbar told Dawn that intelligence agencies had received information that Habibur Rehman, said to be a member of Al Qaeda, was living in a rented house in the town.
When police personnel reached the place the suspect attacked them with hand-grenades causing injuries to two coppers.
More force was called in and efforts to subdue the suspect continued for more than four hours.
According to the police officer, initial investigation showed that a wife and two sons (between five and seven years of age) of the suspect were killed when he detonated his suicide jacket. Another minor child survived the blast.
The suspect was severely injured and was taken to the Toba DHQ hospital and later shifted to the Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
Allied Hospital where he died.
Muazzam Ramzan, one of the seriously injured constables, also was taken to the same hospital.
Inspector Shahbaz Ahmad Virk told Dawn that Rehman, who hailed from Multan, had rented the house about three months ago. He said members of a terror gang busted recently in Faisalabad had informed law-enforcement agencies about the presence of Rehman in Pir Mahal.