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NAME: PAK GUNFIGHT 170505Nx TAPE: EF05/0441 IN_TIME: 10:49:09:04 DURATION: 00:00:54:14 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Karachi - 17 May 2005 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: Hub, western outskirts of Karachi 1. Wide of paramilitary Ranger troops firing and running 2. Rangers walking towards spot 3. Rangers 4. Rangers with arrested men lying on ground 5. Arrested men lying on ground 6. Rangers with suspected bandits 6. Exterior of house from where arrests were made, Rangers stood in front 7. Arrested men walking in line 8. Police officer Civil Hospital, central Karachi 9. Various of injured on trolleys STORYLINE: Police and paramilitary troops exchanged fire on Tuesday with suspected bandits near the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, leaving one police officer dead and 14 other officers and soldiers wounded, an official said. The shootout began when the security forces raided a home in Hub, a residential and industrial district on the western outskirts of Karachi, according to a Karachi police official. The security forces planned to arrest a man suspected in robberies, kidnappings and extortion in Karachi. But people inside the house opened fire on the police and paramilitary troops (known as Rangers) and two people inside the house were either killed or injured. Several others were arrested. It was unclear whether the man who was the target of the raid was among the people taken into custody.