Firing on PIA Jet in Peshawar, Killing 1 Woman on Board

[Ashutosh Lokhande]

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[Reviewer21]

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PESHAWAR: A firing incident on a plane arriving from Riyadh has left a woman dead and two flight stewards injured at Peshawar’s Bacha Khan airport, DawnNews reported late on Tuesday night.

Initial TV reports suggest that the incident took place as the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing PK-756, with 196 passengers onboard, was landing at the airport.

The firing injured three people including two flight stewards and a woman, who later succumbed to her wounds.

Police and security forces have cordoned off the airport premises and launched a search operation to arrest the culprits behind the incident.

One of the injured flight steward, identified as Ijaz Chaudhry has been shifted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH).

Police officials and PIA spokesman Mashood Tajwar have confirmed the incident and the casualties.

The suspected attack follows a major Taliban assault on Karachi airport earlier this month that killed at least 32 people including all 10 attackers.

The security was put on a high alert around the area amidst Pakistani military's ongoing operation Zarb-i-Azb against militants in North Waziristan Agency, one of the country's seven semi-autonomous tribal agencies next to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of which Peshawar is the capital.

– This is a developing story and will be updated as reports come in

www.dawn.com/news/1114849/firing-on-plane-kills-woman-wounds-two-at-peshawar-airport

 

[Basel]

R.I.P to departed souls, very coward act by terrorists.

 

[Devil Soul]

 

[Basel]

TTP is reduced to a strength that every single mission they plan is becoming a fail,Also they no more have any suicide bombers left

Never ever underestimate the enemy.

 

[Reviewer21]

R.I.P to departed souls, very coward act by terrorists.

Not sure if they were terrorist. Police is searching for the culprits.

RIP innocent soul. And may the injured get well soon.

 

[Ashutosh Lokhande]

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[Basel]

Not sure if they were terrorist. Police is searching for the culprits.
RIP innocent soul. And may the injured get well soon.

Even if this not an act by terrorists the people who did that should be brought to justice so in future these stupid air firing incidents which sometimes cause huge loss to other can be avoided.

 

[Reviewer21]

@Chak Bamu Mod please merge this thread with this one:



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Even if this not an act by terrorists the people who did that should be brought to justice so in future these stupid air firing incidents which sometimes cause huge loss to other can be avoided.

Agreed.

 

[SHAMK9]

Firing at a wedding? This has happened before

 

[HAIDER]

10 bullets penetrate , plane is grounded .....PIA is using PAF airbase for decades. Time for PIA to built there own airport.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Never ever underestimate the enemy.

And this Enemy is "Hydra-Headed". You chop off one head and another one appears. This is idealogy based warfare. More so on some demented religious idealogy. Its not going to be easy to fight people "who see and hear divine commandments" and who are convinced that they have "booked their place in heaven".
Same for the misplaced notion that Al-Qaeda has been eliminated, its not it just mutated and multiplied like an amoeba.

10 bullets penetrate , plane is grounded .....PIA is using PAF airbase for decades. Time for PIA to built there own airport.

Not necessarily. Its more important to beef up the Security there. Even more so considering that its actually a PAF airfield. If a PAF plane had been attacked instead?

 

[Abotani]

RIP
How did they get the Firearms and ammo onboard?

 

[Jay12345]

RIP
How did they get the Firearms and ammo onboard?

They didn't, shooting was from ground

 

[Indus Falcon]

RIP
How did they get the Firearms and ammo onboard?

Are you feeling alright?