Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:46AM GMT
A Pakistani policeman inspects the wreckage of a police van following a bomb explosion in Peshawar on August 11, 2011.
Gunmen have killed three policemen and injured another in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar when the forces were escorting back several prisoners from a hospital.
The incident took place on Friday when armed men riding two motorcycles and a car opened fire on the police forces and managed to take the prisoners after the attack, Peshawar police chief Imtiaz Altaf said.
"They were taken to hospital for a dental check-up. The gunmen fired at them when they returned from the hospital," Altaf was quoted by AFP as saying.
The attack occurred outside the hospital on the campus of Peshawar University. Security officials said that eight to ten gunmen had been waiting outside the dental college.
The detainees had been in Peshawar's central jail on charges of terrorism, police official Mohammed Ijaz said.
At least seven police officers and a child were killed in Peshawar on Thursday when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near a police truck and then a female bomber detonated her explosives-laden vest in the same place.
In another on Thursday, unidentified gunmen killed two policemen and injured three others when they attacked a police check post n Samangli road in Quetta, capital of southwestern province of Balochistan.
Six Pakistani soldiers were injured after a remote-controlled bomb planted by militants in a motorcycle was detonated near a vehicle of Frontier Corps in Turbat city in Balochistan on Tuesday.
Pro-Taliban militants have spread their influence in various regions, killing people and security forces on an almost daily basis despite an offensive by the Pakistani government.
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