Karachi: At least 23 people including all the 10 terrorists, who had attacked Pakistan's Karachi airport on the intervening night of June 8 and 9, have been killed, according to the Pakistani Army. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack on Karachi's Jinnah International Airport on Sunday night.
A Pakistan Army spokesman said the entire airport had been cleared and all the 10 terrorists had been killed, reported Dawn.com, a Pakistani news website. According to the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa a total of 23 people were killed in the attack, including security personnel.
Asim Bajwa said that the terrorists "were confined to two areas and eliminated" by the security forces.
The heavily armed terrorists dressed in airport security personnel uniforms entered the Fokker building at the old airport terminal late Sunday night, police sources said.
Heavy contingents of Pakistan army and police had to be called in to neutralise the attackers. They surrounded the Fokker building where the attackers were holed up and a fierce gun battle followed.
Plumes of smoke and fire could be seen inside the old airport and a few loud explosions were also heard near the workshop and hanger area.
The ISPR spokesman confirmed that army units had been called from the nearby Malir cantonment base. At least one terrorist blew himself up.
Officials had to cancel the flight operations from the airport following the attack. A spokesman for the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) said that passengers and visitors at the Jinnah International Airport which is close to the old terminal building had been shifted to safe and secure locations soon after the attack started.
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