Drug peddlers attack police team, snatch official weapons in Lahore

LAHORE: In a rare action, a group of drug peddlers attacked a police team and snatched their official weapons in Lahore, ARY News reported on Monday.

Sources said that the incident took place at Shah Jamal, Ichra area of Lahore, where the police team raided to arrest drug peddlers. Upon seeing the police, the drug peddlers attacked the cops and snatched their official weapons.

In a footage, available with the ARY News, drug peddlers could be seen chasing and aiming at the police officials in a broad daylight on a street with an automatic gun, snatched from the police officials.

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While other drug peddlers, some of them knife- wielding, attacked and tortured the police officials during the raid.

The sources said that initially, the police team escaped from the scene to save their lives but later they returned with heavy contingents of police and cordoned off the area.

During the operation, the drug peddlers were arrested and the official weapons recovered from their possession, said sources.

Police have lodged a first information reported (FIR) and launched investigation into the incident.