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Feb 17 6 tweets 4 min read
A gunbattle was raging on Friday night inside a Pakistan police compound in the port city of #Karachi, officials and witnesses said, just weeks after a bomb blast at a police mosque in the country's northwest killed over 80 officers ▶️ u.afp.com/isAX
#BREAKING Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for ongoing attack on Karachi police compound: spokesman
Two wounded in ongoing battle at Karachi police compound. Gunfire and blasts are still heard in vicinity u.afp.com/isdY
At least seven dead, including three suicide attackers, after Taliban fighters storm a Karachi police compound, a provincial official tells AFP u.afp.com/isd7
Gunfire raged late into the night at police compound in Karachi #AFPvideos
Suicide attack on Karachi police compound left scenes of mayhem, bloodshed #AFPphotos

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