One dead as gunmen shoot at passenger plane
One woman was killed and several people were injured when gunmen opened fire on a passenger plane as it landed at Peshawar airport in Pakistan, said police.
The Pakistan International Airlines plane – flight PK756 – was carrying some 178 passengers on a flight from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
One flight attendant was injured and taken to hospital, but police said a woman had died on the way to hospital.
A deadly attack by militants on Karachi airport earlier this month, which left nearly 40 people dead, sparked an army offensive against insurgent positions in the North Waziristan region.
Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper said security forces had cordoned off the Bacha Khan airport site in Peshawar and had launched a hunt for the gunmen.
Police officer Dost Muhammad Khan told Associated Press five bullets had hit the plane.
The jet suffered a heavy landing, injuring a number of other passengers.
PIA official Mohammad Kifayatullah Khan told Reuters he had entered the plane and saw the fatally injured woman on her seat.
He said: "All the passengers were panicked. Some of them wanted to get out as soon as possible because they were afraid of fire inside the plane."
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