Several killed in Pakistan hospital attack

LAHORE, Pakistan, June 1 (UPI) -- Armed men gunned down several people at a Pakistani hospital but failed to reach a wounded militant being held in an earlier mosque attack, police said.

The exact death toll in the Monday attack at the Jinnah Hospital in Lahore was not immediately available but various reports put it as five to 12. Several more were wounded by the attackers who entered the hospital clad in police uniforms, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported.

The assault came three days after suicide attackers killed more than 90 people at two mosques in Lahore for the Ahmadis, a minority Muslim sect. At least 10 Ahmadis and the suspect wounded in the attacks were being treated at the hospital, Dawn reported.

At least seven suspects have been arrested in the mosque attacks.

Lahore police official Chaudhry Shafiq Ahmed told Dawn four gunmen stormed the hospital's intensive care unit on the first floor and began firing indiscriminately, targeting the policemen guarding the mosque attack suspect.

Britain's Daily Telegraph reported militants in Lahore have declared war on both the government and minority Muslim groups. The Pakistani Taliban, whose members belong to the majority Sunni sect, claimed responsibility for the mosque attacks.