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Two militants killed in Pak

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Press Trust of India Islamabad
Last Updated : May 14 2013 | 5:05 PM IST
Two suspected militants were gunned down by police after they attacked a police station on the outskirts of Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan today, officials said.
The armed men, who were in a car, fired indiscriminately and lobbed grenades at a police station at Badabher on the outskirts of Peshawar.
Police teams intercepted the car and killed the two men in an exchange of fire, officials said.
Three passers-by, including a woman, were injured in the firing.
Several grenades and weapons were found in the car, officials said.
In a separate incident, an alleged target killer and two accomplices was arrested by police from a house at Hangu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
District police chief Sajid Khan told reporters that police acted on a tip-off and made the arrested during a raid.
Khan claimed the target killer was a commander of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and was wanted for several murders.

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First Published: May 14 2013 | 5:05 PM IST

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