12 policemen taken hostage, 6 injured in attack by miscreants on Nawankot Police Station
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Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Policemen stand guard as supporters of the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party take part in a protest while blocking a street, in Lahore on April 18, 2021. AFP/Arif Ali Miscreants attack Nawankot Police Station, injuring 6 policemen. The deputy superintendent of police, along with 11 other policemen, held hostage by the miscreants. Police did not plan or launch any operation against the miscreants; they only retaliated in their defence to rescue the hostages, says Firdous Ashiq Awan.
LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar s aide Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday said that miscreants armed with petrol bombs attacked the Nawankot Police Station, taking 12 policemen hostage and leaving six injured.
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Four killed in clashes after banned TLP group s workers take police hostage in Lahore
4 hours ago Policemen leave in an ambulance after a clash with the supporters of the banned TLP during a protest in Lahore on Sunday. AFP
Tariq Butt,
Correspondent
At least four protesters belonging to the proscribed Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) were killed in clashes with police after a large number of its activists attacked a police station in Lahore and made police officers hostage on Sunday.
Lahore police spokesman Arif Rana said TLP workers brutally tortured a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) and took him, as well as four other officers, hostage.
Source:
PTI
Lahore: Three workers of banned radical Islamist party Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) were killed and scores injured in a fresh operation launched by Pakistani security forces here on Sunday against the outfit that carried out violent protests to force the government to expel the French ambassador over a blasphemous caricature published in France last year.
Rangers and police on Sunday morning launched the operation at the TLP headquarters (Chowk Yateem Khana) Lahore to remove thousands of workers camped there, blocking the main Multan Road.
During the operation, three TLP activists were killed and dozens injured. A senior police officer is among several law enforcers suffered injuries, a senior police officer told PTI. As the number of TLP supporters was in thousands the Rangers and police could not manage to disperse them in a three-hour operation, he said, adding that the law enforcers ended the operation fearing loss of more lives.