ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police claimed on Friday that they foiled an armed assault on three jail vans carried out by assailants to free Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers, authorities officers, and cops detained within the D-Chowk demonstration case.
The unidentified attackers carried out a gun assault on three jail vans transporting “82 accused, together with PTI members of provincial meeting (MPAs), authorities officers, and policemen, to Attock jail” after a courtroom listening to, sources advised Geo Information.
One of many jail vans was transporting PTI MPAs Anwar Zaib, Liaquat, and Yasir Qureshi.
The PTI lawmakers amongst different inmates managed to flee from the jail vans following the armed assault, nevertheless, they had been rearrested by Islamabad cops.
The armed assault occurred at Sangjani Toll Plaza, the police sources mentioned, including that it was like an ambush because the armed males had already taken place earlier than the arrival of the vans on the toll plaza.
The attackers burst tyres of the vans and later opened fireplace on the cops, leaving 4 policemen wounded who had been swiftly shifted to the hospital.
The images of the incident, obtained by Geo Information, confirmed {that a} police cell van within the jail vans’ convoy was additionally broken within the assault.
Following the armed assault, Inspector Basic (IG) Islamabad Police Ali Nasir Rizvi advised Geo Information that 82 prisoners had been current within the jail vans who had been being transported to Attock jail after being produced earlier than a courtroom within the federal capital.
He mentioned that every one inmates, who fled after the assault, have been rearrested as police foiled the bid to flee. Rizvi confirmed that the fleeing inmates additionally embrace two MPAs who’ve additionally been taken into custody once more.
Alternatively, PTI Info Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram blamed the Islamabad police for “utilizing these techniques to file extra pretend instances in opposition to the occasion staff”.
In an announcement, Akram claimed that greater than 80 occasion associates had been produced earlier than a courtroom for the listening to of a case filed at Sangjani Police Station right this moment.
The courtroom discharged all PTI staff within the case, he added.
The Imran Khan-founded occasion’s spokesperson claimed that the inmates had been being delivered to Attock jail and their jail vans had been taken to Chungi Quantity 26, including that every one of them had been booked in one other case lodged at Secretariat Police right this moment.
Rejecting the police claims of going through an armed assault, Akram alleged {that a} station home officer (SHO) and different cops shattered window glass of a police cell van and jail vans after taking out all inmates.
He claimed that the PTI inmates had been requested to run away, nevertheless, they refused to flee.
It is a growing story and is being up to date with extra particulars.