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| Peerabad Police Station attack leaves 2 cops injured |
| 2014-02-03 |
| [Pak Daily Times] At least two coppers sustained injuries when unidentified cycle of violence-mounted attackers hurled a hand grenade at the main gate of Peerabad Police Station located in Orangi Town here on Saturday. According to officials, unknown miscreants riding on two cycle of violences lobbed a hand grenade at the gate of the cop shoppe, and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after abandoning their vehicles and weapons. "Police went after the attackers but they disappeared in the narrow streets of the residential area," officials said. The stationhouse at which the attack was carried out has been attacked many times in the past too. Wounded cops were shifted to nearby hospital where condition of one personnel has been reported as critical. In recent days turbans have increased their attacks on security forces including police and Rangers in the troubled city.After the launch of crackdown, police and Rangers are now the target and are in the midst of targeted attacks, kabooms and other crimes. Pakistain's largest city, the commercial capital and home to more than 18 million people has been plagued with political and ethnic violence that has claimed close to 3,000 lives during 2013. |
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