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| One police academy attacker held, may be an Afghan |
 LAHORE: After seven hours of the ordeal, there are reports that at least one of the
officers, and injured 90 others as they stormed into police training centre near here, has been arrested. ( Watch )
The arrested attacker is believed to be an Afghan national. Meanwhile, reports said Pak rangers had also killed two of the attackers.
Lobbing grenades and opening indiscriminate fire, the terrorists struck the academy as trainees prepared for the morning drill, killing guards at the gate and later holed up inside with hostages. ( Watch )
Authorities clamped curfew, called in the army and paramilitary rangers who along with the police laid a siege to the sprawling complex where an estimated 800 unarmed policemen were present.
Helicopters and armoured carriers were deployed by the security forces to monitor the situation inside, which authorities described as a hostage crisis.
Pak interior ministry chief Rehman Malik said the suspicion in the attack was on Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e Mohammad as intermittent firing and sounds of explosions continued to emanate from the centre.
While Malik said the attack bore resemblance to the Mumbai terror strikes, former Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub said it "is similar to the one on the Sri Lankan team".
"It is the same type of people and same style of operation," he said.
Pakistan media reports said that the hostage crisis has been initiated by the attackers to facilitate the release of dreaded terrorists, like the mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks — Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakvi and Zarar Shah.
The Pakistan government said that the involvement of a foreign hand could not be ruled out in the attack and it could be a possible Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) or Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) attack.
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