Militants planning attack on school killed

Karachi
Three members of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed in an encounter with the police on Tuesday.
Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) in-charge Khurram Waris said officials received information regarding the presence of TTP suspects planning an attack on a school from their hideout situated near the Northern Bypass.
Subsequently, Waris led a CTU team to raid the locality. The suspects, upon seeing the law-enforcers, opened fire but were critically injured when the STU personnel retaliated. They were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where the doctors pronounced them dead.
Meanwhile, while searching the terrorists’ hideout, the CTU personnel recovered two Kalashnikovs, two TT pistols, two hand grenades and a finished improvised-explosive device weighing about four kilogrammes.
The CTU incharge said the bomb was meant to be used for attacking a school in the city.
The bomb disposal squad was called in which was able to defuse the explosive device.
Waris while talking to The News said the deceased terrorists were identified as Gul Pir Khan, Noor Alam and Ameer Mohammed.
He said they were members of the banned TTP and had been involved in terrorist activities in Karachi and Khyber-Pakhtunkwa.
He said the deceased had been involved in sectarian killings and murders of policemen in Karachi, mostly working in areas on the outskirts of the city.