Pakistan demolishes bin Laden hideout
- Published: 26/02/2012 at 04:32 AM
- Online news: Asia
Pakistani security forces on Saturday began demolishing the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in a covert US raid last May in the garrison town of Abbottabad, police and witnesses said.
The last hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is seen through trees in Abbottabad in 2011. Pakistani security forces on Saturday began demolishing the compound where bin Laden was killed in a covert US raid in May in the northwestern garrison town of Abbottabad, police and witnesses said.
"Two bulldozers are engaged, the demolition work is in progress, it is being done by security forces, including troops," a police official on the spot told AFP by telephone on condition of anonymity.
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