In pictures: Pakistan police attacks

Police approach a police building in Lahore which came under attack

Militants unleashed co-ordinated attacks on police in Pakistan, killing nearly 40 people (Warning: Viewers may find some of these images disturbing).

The body of a victim being taken out of the FIA building

Gunmen armed with suicide vests and grenades stormed the offices of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Lahore. Several people - including policemen and militants - were killed in the ensuing battle.

Pakistani policemen leave a police training centre after gunmen attacked in Lahore on 15 October 2009

Almost simultaneously, militants struck two police training centres on the city's outskirts.

Policemen comfort their comrades outside a police training centre in Lahore, 15 October

Witnesses said more than 20 attackers stormed a police commando academy in Bedian and a police school at Manawan.

A three-hour siege followed at one of the police centres, in which several policemen were killed and injured.

Bodies at a hospital in Lahore, 15 October

Among the dead, security officials identified 15 police, a civilian and 10 attackers who were shot dead or blew themselves up.

Students walk past the remains of police station in Kohat, on 15 October 2009

Militants also bombed a police station in the north-west town of Kohat, near Peshawar, killing 11 people including several policemen.

Pakistani policemen sit in a damaged police station after suicide car bomb blast in the town of Kohat on 15 October

The attack in Kohat saw a bomber ram his car into the wall of the police station compound, causing part of the building to collapse.

Destroyed houses in Peshawar on 15 October

Later, a car bomb ripped through a residential building for government employees in Peshawar, killing a child.

Security officials inspect the wreckage of a car used in a bomb blast in Peshawar on 15 October

This is all that was left of the car following the blast.

A number of people were wounded in the Peshawar blast, including this girl.

A bomb disposal expert removes a suicide jacket from the body of an attacker at the FIA office in Lahore, on 15 October

Pakistani authorities say they have regained full control of all the police centres after hours of clashes with militants. This militant was shot dead and disarmed before he could detonate his explosives in Lahore.