3 policemen shot dead in Hyderabad

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HYDERABAD: Three policemen were killed when a police party was attacked by gunmen here on Sunday night.

Another policeman and a pedestrian suffered bullet injuries in the attack in Latifabad No 7.

The deceased were identified as Ishtiaq, Rashid and Maqsood and the injured as head constable Munawar David and Qaiser Rizvi.

The policemen, who were posted at A-section police station, were carrying out snap checking when four armed men on two motorbikes fired at them, killing three on the spot.

The injured were taken to the city branch of Liaquat University Hospital.

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The DIG Hyderabad, Dr Sanaullah Abbasi, termed the incident a backlash of the military operation launched in North Waziristan last month.

In December last year, four policemen of the same police station were shot dead. The Taliban had claimed the responsibility for those killings.

Published in Dawn, July 7th, 2014

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Mohammad Hussain Khan is a staff reporter and investigative journalist for Dawn based in Hyderabad, where he has worked since 1994. He covers governance, agriculture, and water resources, as well as health, the environment, and the judicial system.

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syed akif

Jul 07, 2014 10:14am

All such killings and attacks on the police indicate a lack of basic training and preparedness; were all of them carrying out the checking in bullet proof vests or just idling by as we normally see policemen do at such checkpoints. Because the terrorists are better prepared (in attack tactics, planning for getting away, knowing the enemy's casual attitude, etc) they continue to inflict such losses; if the police have to set up check posts they should do so properly with protective gear, defensive positions of some colleagues, full light powered by a generator, etc. The training and leadership of our police is pathetic.

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