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Four shooters assaulted the Pakistani stock market in Karachi, killing 2 guards and a cop and injuring seven others prior to being shot dead.
The enemies introduced a grenade attack at the main gate to the structure and opened fire but authorities state they stopped working to make it to the trading flooring.
Personnel took sanctuary in locked rooms and many were left as security forces put an end to the assault.
Militants from the Baloch Freedom Army state they were behind the attack.
Ethnic Baloch groups have fought a long-running revolt for a separate homeland and a greater share of resources in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
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The shooters stormed a security post at eviction and battled their way into the parking lot.
The director-general of the paramilitary Sindh Rangers force, Omer Ahmed Bukhari, said all the opponents had been killed within eight minutes.
” They had actually come to perform an attack inside the building and hijack within,” he informed a news conference.
He said the gunmen had actually brought materials of food along with weapons, recommending they were gotten ready for a siege.
Pakistan has suffered years of militant violence, mainly by Islamist groups, however attacks such as this one have become rare in recent years.
‘ They opened fire on everybody’
Monday’s attack began when the militants armed with automatic rifles threw a grenade and then began shooting at a security post outside the stock exchange.
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