[Dawn] Gunmen on Friday ambushed police ferrying terror suspects to dental treatment on a university campus,
| Dental treatment? Surely there's time enough for such things -- on the government dime, no less -- after convictions have been obtained. |
killing three officers and driving off with the detainees, police said. The detainees included a Taliban capo.
The attack happened at the University of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar where police had taken the detainees from the northwestern city's central jail.
"They were taken to hospital for a dental check-up. The gunnies fired at them when they returned from the hospital," Peshawar police chief Imtiaz Altaf said.
"The prisoners were nabbed under terrorism charges. The gunnies came on two cycle of violences and a car, and beat feet with them after killing three coppers and injuring one," said police official Mohammed Ijaz.
Security officials told AFP on condition of anonymity that eight to 10 gunnies had been lying in wait outside the dental college.
| The really cool cats hang out by the clinic, man. |
Peshawar, a teeming city of 2.5 million, is on the front line of a Taliban insurgency and borders Pakistain's tribal belt that Washington calls the global headquarters of Al Qaeda.
| And clearly they are on the cutting edge of dental hygiene, as well. |
On Thursday, a female suicide kaboomer and a separate handcart bomb also targeted police in the city, killing seven people in the first deadly attacks on the northwest during the month of Ramazan. |