Armed gunmen storm Lahore’s FIA building, take several hostage

October 15th, 2009 Official: 7 killed in attack on LahoreLAHORE, Pakistan — A Pakistani official says seven people have been killed when a team of gunmen attacked the federal law enforcement building in the eastern city of Lahore. Senior official Sajjad Bhutta said Thursday the attack lasted about 1 1/2 hours and was over by 11 a.m.

October 15th, 2009 Pakistan gunmen attack 3rd target in LahoreLAHORE, Pakistan — A Pakistani police official says gunmen have attacked a second police training center near the eastern city of Lahore. Senior police official Chaudhry Shafiq says the attack on the elite police commando training center on the outskirts of the city is the third militant assault to hit the city Thursday morning.

October 14th, 2009 LAHORE - Unidentified gunmen fired shots at the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building in this Pakistani city Thursday. Police said that four unidentified gunmen fired shots at the FIA building situated on Temple Road in Lahore Thursday, Geo TV reported.

October 14th, 2009 Gunmen attack federal building in PakistanLAHORE, Pakistan — Gunmen entered a federal law enforcement building in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, firing shots and terrifying employees in the latest in a string of attacks to rock this U.S.-allied nuclear-armed country as it prepares to launch a major offensive in a Taliban and al-Qaida stronghold. In the Taliban-riddled northwest, meanwhile, a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle next to a police station, killing at least eight people, while a suspected U.S.

October 14th, 2009 Police: Gunmen attack Lahore police academyLAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistani police say have gunmen attacked a police academy on the outskirts of the eastern city of Lahore. The academy attack occurred Thursday as another team of gunmen were firing shots inside a federal law enforcement building in the city.

September 6th, 2009 MONTERREY - About a dozen gunmen kidnapped a prosecutor in charge of drug cases from a club packed with 2,000 people in Monterrey, capital of the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, a police spokesman has said. Jorge Jogar Hobbs Flores, who is in charge of a joint anti-drug unit operating in Monterrey's northern suburbs, was abducted early Sunday by the hooded gunmen, who arrived at the upscale downtown La Rumba club aboard three SUVs.

August 19th, 2009 KABUL - An unknown number of gunmen were holed up in a government bank in the centre of Kabul Wednesday as police and army forces were trying to enter the building, officials and witnesses said. "Our forces are already inside the bank and they are trying to clear the building of these men," Zemarai Bashary, an Interior Ministry spokesman, said.

August 19th, 2009 KABUL - Several armed men stormed a bank in Afghan capital Kabul Wednesday morning and clashed with the police a day ahead of the national elections. Gunfire erupted as police launched an operation against the men who broke into a bank building at 7 a.m.

August 11th, 2009 KABUL - Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers seized a five-story building in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Afghanistan's Logar Province on Monday, after battling Afghan and American forces for several hours. At least four people were killed in the encounter that occurred ten days before national and presidential elections.

June 9th, 2009 BANGKOK - At least 10 people have been killed and 13 others wounded when gunmen opened fire indiscriminately inside a mosque in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat, officials said. Five gunmen armed with assault rifles opened fire inside a mosque in Ibaye village Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 13 others, a police official said.

May 31st, 2009 RAMALLAH - At least six people were killed Sunday during a shootout between an armed group and the Palestinian security forces in the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya, the police said. Three of the dead were members of the security forces, two were gunmen and the sixth was owner of the building where the fighting took place, according Adnan Dmeiri, a spokesman for the security forces.

May 29th, 2009 TEHRAN - Three people were injured when the election headquarters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the southeastern Sistan-Beluchistan province was attacked Friday by unidentified gunmen, IRNA reported. Mohammad-Reza Zahed-Sheikhi, the chief of the headquarters, told IRNA that three gunmen on motorbikes attacked the building in the provincial capital Zahedan and started shooting at supporters.

May 27th, 2009 LAHORE - Terror revisited Lahore Wednesday when a massive car bomb exploded outside a building in the busy Civil Lines area killing an estimated 40 people and injuring over 100. The car bomb, that packed in about 100 kg of explosives, went off just outside the three-storeyed Rescue-15 Building that collapsed with the impact of the blast.

May 27th, 2009 LAHORE - A massive car bomb ripped through a building in the Civil Lines area of Pakistan's Lahore city Wednesday morning, killing an estimated 30 people and injuring at least 80. Raja Riaz, a senior minister in the Punjab government, told reporters that about 30 people were killed in the car bomb blast in the 15 Building that was reduced to rubble.

April 29th, 2009 PESHAWAR - The Taliban has taken hostage at least 71 security personnel in the Pir Baba area of Buner district in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). According to The News, the station house officer (SHO) of the Pir Baba police station along with his cops and 50 Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel have been held captive by the armed gunmen.