ISLAMABAD: Armed assailants have attacked three jail vans carrying a number of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers, authorities staff and cops detained within the D-Chowk protest case, sources instructed Geo Information on Friday.
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 courtroom listening to.
One of many jail vans was transporting PTI MPAs Anwar Zaib, Liaquat, and Yasir Qureshi.
The armed assault occurred at Sangjani Toll Plaza the place the attackers burst tyres of the jail vans, the police sources mentioned.
They added 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 a number of policemen wounded who had been swiftly shifted to the hospital.
Following the armed assault, Inspector Common (IG) Islamabad Police Ali Nasir Rizvi instructed 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 embody two MPAs who’ve additionally been taken into custody once more.
The Islamabad police chief claimed that 4 out of 18-20 attackers, together with an MPA’s son, a policeman, and two different people, had been additionally apprehended by safety officers.
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