Firing reported near police training academy in Lahore

April 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The authorities claim to have arrested an Indian national and five Pakistanis who were said to be planning a terror attack on a police academy near the adjacent garrison town of Rawalpindi. While the Indian national was arrested Friday morning, the other five were arrested later in the day on the basis of information provided by him, Dawn News channel said Saturday.

April 2nd, 2009 LAHORE - Indian passenger buses have been barred from entering the city in the wake of the terror attack on a police academy on its outskirts just 12 km from the Wagah border. When the New Delhi-Lahore bus arrived at Wagah Monday, Pakistani security forces were still attempting to recapture the Manawan academy from a group of terrorists who had taken hundreds of trainees hostage.

March 31st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack on a police training academy in Lahore Monday, a media report said Tuesday. Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, confirmed that his group carried out the attack but did not give details, said Geo News TV channel.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - A group of heavily armed terrorists Monday stormed a police training academy near here, killing at least 27 trainees and taking over 800 hostage before the security forces ended the brazen eight-hour stand-off. Eight terrorists were killed and three were captured alive.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - At least 20 police trainees were killed and many injured when a group of terrorists struck at a police training academy here Monday and took dozens of men hostage, authorities said. Helicopters hovered in the air Monday as crack assault teams took up positions outside the sprawling Matawan police training centre, which is located a few kilometres away from the Wagah border.

March 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has pointed towards a probable foreign involvement in the attack on the police training camp in Lahore earlier today. Pakistan Prime Minister's Advisor on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik said the attack has been carried out by the jihadi outfits and a foreign hand could not be ruled out.

March 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI/BAHARAMPUR - India Monday condemned the brazen assault on a police academy near Lahore that claimed lives of at least 27 trainees before Pakistani security forces neutralised the attackers, saying terrorism in all its forms needed to be stamped out. As the attackers struck, Home Minister P.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistani security forces Monday stormed a police training academy on the outskirts of this Pakistani city, ending an eight-hour siege by a group of heavily armed attackers who killed 27 people and took over 800 hostage. Four of the terrorists were killed, while three were captured alive.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - At least eight police trainees were killed and about 150 injured when a group of militants stormed a police training academy here Monday and took dozens of men hostage, media reports said. Helicopters hovered in the air as crack assault teams took up positions outside the Matawan police training centre in the outskirts of this city.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - The terror siege of the police training academy on the outskirts of this Pakistani city ended Monday afternoon. Pakistani commandos fired in the air in celebration, media reports said.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistani security forces Monday regained control of a police training centre near Lahore after an eight-hour battle with Islamist militants that left 27 security personnel dead in one of the most audacious terror attacks in the country. At least 90 others were injured, some grievously.

March 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Monday condemned the terror attack on the Lahore police academy, saying it offered its deep sympathy to the people of Pakistan. 'We don't have full information.

March 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Monday expressed shock at the terror attack in Lahore in which at least 22 police trainees were killed. 'The government of India is deeply saddened and shocked by the events in Lahore,' Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters here.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - Tactical units of the Pakistani security forces have cleared portions of a police academy where several assailants were holed up after killing at least 22 recruits and wounding dozens more in an early morning attack, news reports said Monday. The armed group holed up in the training school on the outskirts of the eastern city of Lahore were believed to have taken up to 150 policemen hostage.

March 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A shootout took place Tuesday morning near the Gaddafi cricket ground in Lahore as the Sri Lankan cricket team was passing by, Geo TV said.