Lahore: Firing indiscriminately and lobbing grenades, Taliban guerrillas wearing suicide vests stormed two mosques of the minority Ahmadi sect on Friday, taking worshipers hostage and sparking gun battles with police that left at least 62 people dead before the attackers were neutralised, police and rescue workers said.
In Image: Pakistani security personnel take position outside the Garhi Shahu mosque while militants lay siege in a standoff with police after they tried to storm the site, in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday, May 28, 2010. Suspected Islamist militants attacked two mosques, Garhi Shahu and Model Town, while they were packed with hundreds of people from a minority sect in eastern Pakistan on Friday.
Text: IANS
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