Information About Incident 60970-121968-309462 in Kotli Pakistan

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Merah was killed after Police and Special Forces laid an almost 32-hour siege of his apartment in Toulouse, after his armed attacks on a Jewish school and killing of army personnel outside their barracks on March 15, 2012.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Toulouse
• Matched District: Kotli
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: Police and Special Forces
• Subject: of army personnel

Context

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Two months after he was shot dead by French Special Forces, a 23-year-old Algerian-origin terrorist Mohamed Merah was found to have been plotting to attack the Indian embassy in Paris on the direction of his Taliban handlers in Pakistan, reports The Times of India on May 19 (today). Quoting sources from the French Internal Intelligence and the Special Forces, Le Monde reported that Mohamed Merah's Taliban handlers in Pakistan had tasked him to attack the Indian mission. That was the target given him by the Taliban who prepared him for jihad during his training in Pakistan in the summer of 2011, the paper reported. Merah was killed after Police and Special Forces laid an almost 32-hour siege of his apartment in Toulouse, after his armed attacks on a Jewish school and killing of army personnel outside their barracks on March 15, 2012.

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