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Gunmen Storm Lahore Hospital

June 01 2010

Pakistan

A group of militants disguised as policemen attacked a hospital in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday morning in an attempt to reach a comrade, Reuters reports.

The attackers killed at least a dozen people and held several more hostage before escaping, police said. Other accounts put the death toll at five ore more.

The men were apparently trying to reach the intensive-care unit, where another militant was being held after attacking two Ahmadi mosques on Friday.

They...

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