*Pakistan's military says it has killed four men who attacked an army headquarters in Rawalpindi, and that some soldiers also died during the assault. The attack comes a day after a massive suicide car bomb killed 52 in the city of Peshawar.
*Source: DTN News / Int'l Media
(NSI News Source Info) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - October 10, 2009: An attack on Pakistani army headquarters in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, ended on
Saturday with all four attackers killed, a military spokesman told Pakistani television.
Saturday with all four attackers killed, a military spokesman told Pakistani television. "All the four terrorists have been killed. The fighting is over now. The situation is under control," Major General Athar Abbas told private TV channel Geo in a live interview. Abbas said some security guards were also killed.
"We are examining how many of our security guards have been martyred," he said, adding that the attackers were wearing camouflage uniform. Soon after the attack army commandos encircled the entire zone and helicopter gunships began to fly overhead.
"They came in a van and tried to enter from gate 1 to gate 2 in the sensitive area. They were stopped and now the situation is under our control," Abbas added. An AFP journalist at the scene reported that the gunbattle lasted an hour and a half.
The attack comes as the Pakistani Taliban have vowed to increase attacks to avenge the killing of their leader Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone strike in August. Local police officer Amjad Ali earlier told AFP:
"A car was signalled to stop outside army headquarters. The occupants opened fire and threw grenades at security guards who retaliated. The fighting still continues outside the HQ. Commandos encircled the entire zone and gunship helicopters are flying over." Pakistan, on the frontline of the United States' battle with worlwide terrorism, has been hit by a wave of bombings that have killed nearly 2,200 people across the nuclear-armed country over the past two years.
A massive suicide car bomb ripped through a packed market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 52 people and injuring over 100, in a region beset by Taliban attacks.
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