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Security forces at Pakistan's busiest airport in the city of Karachi have come u

nder attack, a day after militants stormed one of its terminals.


Officials say gunmen on motorbikes shot at a security training camp just outside
the airport and fled.
Subsequent firing which lasted for up to an hour was shots fired by the army and
police at the scene, officials say.
Flights at the airport are resuming. The Pakistani Taliban say they carried out
both attacks.
The gun and bomb attack on the airport's cargo terminal on Sunday left at least
38 dead, including the attackers
Reports say the attack began after militants pulled up a vehicle and began firin
g. Officials said the gunfire was directed towards their camp, but no gunmen pen
etrated the airport security perimeter.
The heavy weapons and sustained gunfire seems to have been the concerted army re
sponse so close to the scene of the airport attack.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said the attackers should be "pursued
and eliminated".
The military has sealed off the area and are conducting intensive search operati
ons in the area.

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