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Taliban terrorists have left Lahore in complete mess after they attacked Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency building and two other police station along with other attacks across the Pakistan city. The attack has claimed the lives of 23 people and left many injured.
Three separate groups of terrorists carried out the attacks a little after 9.15 am, police said.
Heavy gunfire exchange happened between the terrorists and police at the FIA office on Temple Road, the Elite Force police training centre at Bedian Road near the airport and the police training centre at Manawan on the outskirts of Lahore.
Almost two hours after the FIA office was assaulted by the terrorists, Lahore police commissioner Khusro Pervez said the building had been cleared. He said seven persons, including three FIA personnel and an attacker, were killed and three others injured in the incident.
"The building has been cleared and we are searching the surrounding areas," Pervez told.
One terrorist killed at the FIA office had a suicide jacket, he added. “Four terrorists were killed in Manawan. One was hit by security forces and three blew themselves up," said Lahore city police chief Pervez Rathor.
"In Bedian the situation is not clear. There are initial reports that 8 to 10 people climbed up the wall from behind... There are reports that the attackers included three women but it is not yet fully confirmed," he said.
"The enemy has started a guerrilla war," Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik told a local television station.
The Taliban militants have claimed the responsibility of all the attacks happening in Pakistan since last week.
