Karachi airport attack: 11 ASF men among 22 martyred.
KARACHI:
Twenty-two people (ASF)
were martyred in a harrowing armed assault by terrorists clad in ASF
uniforms on Karachi airport late Sunday night.
Ten
terrorists were killed in the retaliatory action by the security forces
at Karachi Jinnah International Airport in the dark of the night as
random echoes of gunshots and blasts filled the air from some portions
of the tarmac area.
According to the security forces, 10
terrorists heavily laced with state-of-the-art weapons sneaked into the
airport minutes before mid night from Terminal one.They opened indiscriminate fire and blew up explosives targeting the ASF personnel
standing guard. This spread terror as airport staff on
ground ran here and there for safety while passengers and those
accompanying them were overcome by a chilling fear.
Contingents
of police and Rangers rushed to the site of terror strike and without
wasting any time engaged in the counter-terror mission. The
attack was intense, as trigger-happy armed-to-teeth terrorists
continued the killing spree inside the biggest airport of Pakistan. In view
of the gravity and scale of the deadly attack, well-prepared army troops
also reached the airport to take the fight to its logical end.
Following
a well coordinated strategy, the army and Rangers took their positions
and succeeded in first tracing and then hunting down the terrorists who
were hiding in different parts of the airports.
Ten terrorists were taken out in the joint action while 47 rifles, hand grenades, RPGs, and other arms were seized.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed credit for the attack.
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