Police said that a senior commander
of the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was killed in a shootout by the security
forces in Baluchistan province.
The suspected mastermind of the
recent Shikarpur Imambargah, LeJ Baluchistan head Usman Saifullah, was hiding
in a hotel near Gahi Khan chowk in Quetta when the security forces launched a
raid killing him and one other militant, police said.
"Usman Saifullah who is a
senior commander of the LeJ and its head in Baluchistan was killed today
(Sunday) after a shootout with security forces," senior police official
Bashir Brohi told reporters.
While another security official said
that the Frontier Corps assisted by some intelligence officials had struck an
inn close to Gahi Khan chowk on the Saryab road; in which two aggressors were killed
and one captured.
"There were some militants
hiding in the hotel and for defence they fired on the security forces in which
two of them, including Usman, were killed," police official said, adding
that five security personnel were injured in the shootout while one militant
was arrested alive from the hotel.
"A high value terrorist, Usman
was also involved in the killing of members of the Hazara community who have
been systematically targeted and killed in the province. "He had also escaped from the
Anti-Terrorist Force Jail in Quetta Cantonment in 2008," the official
said.
The Baluchistan Home Department had
announced Rs two and a half million bounty on his head. Intelligence sources also said the
commander had close contacts to both al Qaeda and the Afghan
Taliban.
However, militant group Jundullah
had claimed responsibility for the Friday bombing of an Imambargah in Shikarpur
that killed nearly 60 people recently.
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