(30 Jul 2013)
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Dera Ismail Khan
1. Wide of police van entering district hospital
2. Exterior of hospital emergency department
3. Mid of injured on beds inside hospital ward
4. Various of injured man on bed
5. Wide of paramedics treating injured man
6. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Hidayat Ullah, injured policeman:
"When the shooting started, we immediately got into an armed police vehicle and parked on the road in front of the main gate. After this, we heard an explosion and the main gate exploded. After this, we started shooting towards the main gate from our armed vehicle. During this time, maybe either a rocket launcher or a mortar shell hit the vehicle. Two of our policemen were killed on the spot, and three of us were injured. We got down from the armed vehicle, and after that I don't know what happened."
7. Various of another injured policeman
Islamabad
8. Wide of Pakistani Minister for Planning and Development, Ahsan Iqbal, talking to media
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan Minister for Planning and Development:
"The attack in Dera Ismail Khan shows that there is a war which we have to win. It is an attempt to disrupt the law and order situation in KPK (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) province. I hope that the KPK provincial authorities, the law enforcement agencies, will be able to round up all the culprits, and if they ask for assistance from (the) federal government, (the) federal government will provide full assistance."
10. Pakistani lawmakers entering parliament building
STORYLINE
Policemen injured in an attack on a prison in northwest Pakistan by Taliban militants were being treated in hospital on Tuesday.
Dozens of militants armed with guns, grenades and bombs attacked the prison in Dera Ismail Khan on Monday night, freeing more than 250 prisoners, including 25 "dangerous terrorists," officials said.
Dera Ismail Khan's commissioner said the militants killed over a dozen people, including six policemen, six Shiite Muslim prisoners and two civilians.
He said authorities were searching for both the militants and the prisoners who escaped.
Fifteen policemen were wounded, he said.
The prison guards recovering in hospital in Dera Ismail Khan said they were totally overwhelmed by the militant attack.
One of the policemen guarding the prison, Hidayat Ullah, said that he and several colleagues jumped into an armoured vehicle at the main gate of the prison to fight back when the attack started late on Monday night.
"During this time, maybe either a rocket launcher or a mortar shell hit the vehicle. Two of our policemen were killed on the spot, and three of us were injured," said Ullah.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, Pakistani lawmakers began voting for the country's new president.
The prison attack in the semiautonomous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) tribal province illustrated one of the major challenges the new president will face.
Arriving at parliament in Islamabad to cast his vote, the Minister for Planning and Development, Ahsan Iqbal, said it "shows that there is a war which we have to win".
He assured the KPK authorities that the federal government would provide all necessary assistance in solving the case.
Ruling party candidate Mamnoon Hussain is the expected victor in the presidential election, the outcome of which is decided by lawmakers in the Senate, National Assembly and the assemblies of the four provinces.
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