By DPA,
Islamabad : Militants raided a police training centre in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore with assault rifles and hand grenades Monday, killing and injuring several recruits and taking dozens hostage, police officials and media reports said.
Hundreds of policemen had surrounded the building and were exchanging fire with the attackers for more than an hour.
Geo television reported that 15 people, most of them policemen, were killed and 10 injured.
A senior police officer, Mushtaq Sukhera, said the “terrorists had taken positions inside the training centre and the elite squad are called to the scene”.
He said it was difficult to say how many police recruits were killed and injured.
“Around 850 recruits are normally trained here, but we don’t know exactly how many were inside when the attack took place,” Sukhera added.
An injured policeman told Express News television channel that five to six attackers scaled the boundary wall and opened fire on the recruits as they were attending the morning parade.
Television footages showed policemen lying dead in the parade ground.
A police official, requesting anonymity, said the numbers of those killed and injured could be dozens.