Punjab police launched a search operation in different districts of the province including Lahore and arrested more than 200 suspects.
Punjab police launched a search operation in different districts of the province including Lahore and arrested more than 200 suspects.
Lahore
: Police killed three al-Qaeda terrorists in a shootout in Pakistan's Punjab province, thwarting a major terror attack, an official said on Saturday.
According to a Counter-Terrorism Department spokesman, a team of police personnel last night raided a house in Azam Chowk in Layyah district, some 350-km from Lahore.
The terrorists present in the house opened fire. The police returned the fire killing three terrorists, he said. -"Three of their accomplices, however, managed to escape,-" he said, adding that huge quantity of explosives was recovered from the house.
-"The slain terrorists belonged to Al-Qaeda. The law enforcement agencies have thwarted a major terrorist attack in the province,-" he said.
Meanwhile, the Punjab police launched a search operation in different districts of the province including Lahore and arrested more than 200 suspects.
-"Police in a search operation in different districts of Punjab have detained more than 200 suspects mostly Afghans. The police are interrogating them,-" a police spokesperson said.
