Militants gun down 8 Pakistani policemen

July 12, 2012

A group of heavily armed militants today gunned down nine policemen in Lahore after storming a building where dozens of security personnel were living.

Eight more policemen were also injured in the attack in the densely populated neighbourhood of Ichra, officials said.

The policemen belonged to the prison department of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in the northwest and had come to Lahore for training.