LDALL ATTACK 2

However, gunfire erupted again shortly after Abbas
spoke to the media. He then confirmed that two attackers had
eluded the security personnel and were holed up in the nearby
building.

Troops surrounded the building and were trying to
flush them out, Abbas told Dunya news channel.

He said there was "some confusion" as the terrorists
were wearing "camouflage uniforms". Scores of soldiers,
including commandos of the elite Special Service Group, were
deployed for the operation against the two remaining
terrorists.

Police in Islamabad arrested two suspects believed to
have links to the attackers and seized army uniforms,
detonators and fuses from them, officials said. The suspects
were arrested from a house in Model Town Humak on the
outskirts of the federal capital.

Officials said they believed the suspects plotted the
attack at the house.

A man claiming to represent the Amjad Farooqi faction
of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed
responsibility for the attack in a phone call to Geo News
channel.

The caller demanded that the government should halt
military operations against militants and make former
President Pervez Musharraf accountable for his actions.

He also said the government should take steps to end
the purported activities in Pakistan of the private security
firm Blackwater and to close down all Western NGOs. (MORE) PTI
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