Four cops gunned down by militants in Quetta

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QUETTA: Four policemen were killed in what police said appeared to be an incident of targeted killing in the Munir Mengal Road area on Thursday.

Assailants opened fire on a police mobile, killing two policemen on the spot and injuring two others before fleeing on motorbike, police said.

The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed the attack in an email sent to journalists.

The injured policemen were rushed to Civil Hospital Quetta for treatment, where both the policemen succumbed to their wounds.

Police and Frontier Corps personnel reached the spot and an investigation was launched into the attack.

Earlier this month, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a polio centre in Quetta's Satellite Town area, killing 15 people, including 12 policemen.

In the past, policemen have been targeted in Quetta's Satellite Town, Sariab Road and Pashtoonabad areas.

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Syed Ali Shah is DawnNews' Quetta bureau chief.

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naji

Jan 28, 2016 02:48pm

This central govt. and provincial govt. can not control the situation because they can never reach up to the root cause.

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Cyrus

Jan 28, 2016 03:08pm

The terrorists are buying the NATO style M4 carbines. Just what the Quetta police need to blow target killers off their bikes. They fire small grenades which are effective against tandem attackers on motorcycles.

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Aro

Jan 28, 2016 05:17pm

the root cause for this and many other incidents are the maderssas related to a certain banned and a sectarian political party with a new name

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Saba_aziz

Jan 28, 2016 06:17pm

very sad!

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Afzal Bhatti

Jan 28, 2016 06:27pm

@ARO The root cause is Indian and Israeli scheming. You join the dots and you will see the clue point in one direction.

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Philosopher (from Japan)

Jan 28, 2016 06:44pm

Please stop blue train orange train metro rigging tree plantation and other non serious issues. All provincial governments Sindh Punjab KPK Baluchistan should sit together and form a uniform strategy against this terrorism. This is a biggest task for entire Pakistan and it needs all of us should come forward without any ethnicity and provincial identity.

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Ajay

Jan 28, 2016 06:44pm

"The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed the attack in an email sent to journalists." Even in some parts of Indian metros we sometimes have network connection problems. How do these terrorists manage to send emails sitting there in caves? Which network connection do they use?

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lafanga

Jan 28, 2016 07:19pm

@Ajay They are not sitting in caves. TTP leadership is hiding in Afghanistan under the protection of NDS and RAW.

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Deepak Kumar

Jan 28, 2016 08:30pm

@lafanga then why don't you do something. You know everything.. Don't you love your nation?

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asif

Jan 28, 2016 09:04pm

How difficult is to trace people who send emails? I wonder when will our so-called leaders will wake up? How much more human lives do they need before they take concrete actions against these criminals?

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M.Saeed

Jan 28, 2016 09:14pm

Time for the new CM of Baluchistan to invite Rangers with a mandate to tackle & eliminate terror !

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lucky

Jan 28, 2016 10:31pm

salute to pak army

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Truth

Jan 29, 2016 04:48am

@lucky why? why? why? because four policeman were shot. Read the article and purpose of this then comments. Sorry to say, Very immature sentence

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