Five policemen and one gunman were killed on Sunday in an armed attack on a police station by up to a dozen people in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, officers said.
They said the gunmen, riding in two or three cars, went to the police station in an eastern district of Karachi and sprayed bullets at the premises.
”They first abused the policemen and threatened that none of them will be spared and then opened fire from three sides. Bullets also hit an adjacent mosque, where people were offering morning prayers,” said Sindh provincial police chief Kamal Shah.
One of the worshippers in the mosque who was a policeman opened fire on the attackers, killing one gunman, Shah said, adding that the body of the slain militant was taken away by the attackers. — Sapa-AFP