Initial report suggests that five to seven militants were involved in the attack. One of the militants was injured during the inital police firing.
One security guard has been shot dead and the militants said to have entered the emergency ward of the hospital and taken patients hostage.
Terrorists entered hospital premises in camouflage of police uniform. A private TV channel reported that five of the dead are police officers.
The militant captured from Friday’s attack on the Ahmadi community’s place of worship was admitted to the intense care ward of the Jinnah hospital.
