| GEO Pakistan | | Search operation air surveillance at GHQ | Updated at: 1239 PST, Saturday, October 10, 2009
 RAWALPINDI: Firing has come to halt after one-hour long army operation outside army GHQ, Geo news reported on Friday morning, meanwhile, search operation and air surveillance is still continued.
At least four terrorists were killed and two were arrested while a dead body of an unidentified person was also recovered form the encounter place, sources said.
The miscreants have been overpowered and the situation is under completely control, spokesman ISPR Ather Abbas confirmed to Geo news.
According to details suspected militants attacked tightly guarded army headquarters on Saturday, as they were in a white Suzuki vehicle and were intercepted at army checkpost no 1, they opened fire and threw five grenades at a main gate, security officials and media said.
"They wore army uniforms and tried to enter the headquarters area but when they were stopped they opened fire and hurled hand grenades," a security official told media.
Four terrorists were killed and two were arrested during one-hour long encounter, army sources said.
The suspected militants had driven up to the gate in a white Suzuki van that was carrying explosives, the official said.
Media sources said firing was still going on with the two or three gunmen for forty minutes after the attack was launched. Three blasts had been heard, they said.
Soldiers sealed off roads leading to the headquarters and ahelicopter was hovering over the area. |  |
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