GILGIT:
At least one of the two prisoners involved in the Nanga Parbat attack (resulting in 10 foreign tourists’ killing) has been shot dead; the other injured in an attempted jailbreak in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) early Friday morning.
On June 23, 2013, gunmen dressed as para-military forces stormed into Nanga Parbat base camp, killing Chinese and Ukrainian climbers in the Himalaya mountains.
Home Secretary Sibtain Ahmed confirmed that the person killed was one of the assailants. Two other inmates, however, managed to escape from district jail, Gilgit, where the incident occured at 2:45 am.
According to reports, the jailbreak was coordinated and assisted by men …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
