News Desk: The Taliban stormed a police hostel in Pakistan's Lahore by killing at least 9 security forces on Thursday. This is the second attack on security forces in the country since Islamabad resumed the supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan.


The militants attacked a hostel housing police officers in the densely populated area of Ichra where around 30 police prison staffs were sleeping.


The Taliban has claimed the responsibility for the attack.


Around 15 security forces were sleeping on the roof. Some were offering prayers when the militants started gunfire in downstairs.


The Pakistani security forces were the target of the Taliban as militants were tortured in prisons in the northwest. The outfit said the raid was "part of chain of attacks" that started in Punjab's district of Gujrat on Monday and would continue.


Earlier, the Taliban had launched a similar assault on an army camp on Monday creating a fresh wave of violence in Punjab.

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