Security officials foil bid of Yazidi takfiri Taliban terrorists to attack airport security

Security officials foiled the bid of Yazidi takfiri nasbi terrorists of outlawed Taliban to attack airport security academy in Karachi on Tuesday.   

Around three to four gunmen opened fire upon a security check post outside the airport a day after 37 people were killed after an all-night battle on Monday with militants who besieged Karachi airport’s old terminal.

Gunmen fled the area after exchanging fire with Airport Security Force (ASF) personnel at the check post guarding the airport.

Initially, airport security force (ASF)’s colonel Tahir Ali briefed reporters about the attack and the ISPR too issued statement of the attack but later the officers of Pakistan Rangers, ASF and Police objected to the use of word attack by the media outlets. They said it was incident of firing and not the attack. Nobody was hurt in the Tuesday incident.

At least 37 people, including 10 terrorists, were reported dead in what is the first large-scale terrorist attack at the country’s largest airport in years.

According to reports, 12 ASF personnel, one each of the police, Rangers and Shaheen Air International are among the deceased. The dead also include eight people who were trapped inside a private company’s cargo office and found dead 28 hours after rescue operations had started. Twenty-six others were also injured in the first assault.