Six Dead, Nine Police Injured in Pakistan Shootout

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Six Dead, Nine Police Injured in Pakistan Shootout

Six men were killed and nine policemen injured on Sunday when a police convoy carrying suspects linked to a deadly church attack came under fire in eastern Pakistan, police and medical sources said.

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Six men were killed and nine policemen injured on Sunday when a police convoy carrying suspects linked to a deadly church attack came under fire in eastern Pakistan, police and medical sources said.

The convoy was carrying four men suspected of carrying out the massacre last October of 16 Christians and a Muslim at a church in Bahawalpur.

They were being taken to arms and ammunition they said they had hidden in nearby Khairpur Tamewali when four gunmen, apparently linked to the suspects, began firing at the police vehicles near Bahawalpur. The suspects were killed in the crossfire, police said.

Police sub-inspector Mohammad Arshad, who witnessed the early afternoon attack, said two of the four gunmen also died in the ensuing battle. The other two escaped, he said by telephone from hospital in Khairpur Tamewali.

Atta Mohammad, a doctor at the hospital, said nine policemen were injured and were being taken to a larger medical facility at Bahawalpur.

The four suspects had been paraded before the media earlier this week after they were caught by police.

Source: Agencies

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