Pakistan police battle militants after deadly airport raid
- Published: 16 Dec 2012 at 11.46
- Online news: Asia
Six people were killed Sunday as police and troops battled militants armed with automatic weapons, grenades and mortars in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar, a day after a deadly Taliban raid on the city's airport.
Troops detonate a bomb that failed to go off during an assault by militants near Peshawar airport in northwest Pakistan on December 16, 2012. Six people were killed Sunday as police and troops battled militants armed with automatic weapons, grenades and mortars in Peshawar, a day after a deadly Taliban raid on the city's airport.
Fierce firing broke out after police acting on an intelligence report stormed a building near the airport, where a suicide and rocket attack on Saturday killed five civilians and five attackers and wounded 50 other people.
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