A ‘breach team’ were the first to enter, breaking through a doorway into a courtyard.
However they were soon faced by a group of heavily armed men, who had reportedly just finished morning prayers and were loading weapons into a vehicle.
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One of the officers, armed with a Benelli M4 Super 90 semi-automatic shotgun, fired at them, killing three would-be bombers.
Another two terrorists then appeared from a building, but before they could fire off a shot they had been neutralised them as well.
‘The terrorists were no more than a few feet away when the SAS team came face to face with them,’ a source told the Daily Star about the raid late last year.
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