U.S. consulate employee shoots dead 2 armed men in Pakistan

Police said it was unclear what the intentions were of the two men who approached the employee's white sedan.

Maybe they wanted to have lunch?

I'm sure they did not mean him any harm, that is why they pointed guns at him!


The Los Angeles Times
The shooting, which occurred late in the afternoon at a heavily congested intersection, could spark a backlash here against the United States, which is already seen by many here as a superpower that exploits Pakistan and tramples on its sovereignty. Not long after the incident, angry crowds burned tires outside the Lahore police station where the man was being questioned and shouted anti-American slogans.

An employee of the U.S. consulate in Lahore shot and killed two armed Pakistani men on a motorcycle Thursday in what the employee told police was an act of self-defense after the men approached his car and one of them brandished a pistol, authorities said.

A bystander was also killed when he was struck by another consulate vehicle arriving at the scene, police said.

Police said it was unclear what the intentions were of the two men who approached the employee's white sedan. Aslam Tareen, Lahore's police chief, said in a television interview that the employee told them he was stopped at a traffic light when the two men pulled up along the right side of the car, then drove around to the other side.

One of the men on the motorcycle then pulled out a handgun, Tareen said. The consulate employee pulled out his own handgun and fired at the two men several times. One of the men died at the scene and the other later at a local hospital. Tareen said the second man on the motorcycle also had a pistol, and that both handguns were loaded.

The employee, an American citizen, then called colleagues in a second consulate car nearby, which rushed to the intersection. That second car struck and killed a bystander, Obeid ur-Rehman, Tareen said.