PESHAWAR: Peshawar police on Wednesday registered cases against unidentified men for the attack on a passenger plane at Peshawar airport, Express News reported.
On June 24, gunmen fired on Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-756 as it was landing at the Bacha Khan International Airport, killing a woman and injuring two others, including a crew member. The plane was carrying 178 passengers and crew members, and was travelling from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The deceased was identified as Mrs Maknon (passenger) while the injured were identified as Ijaz (flight steward) and Majid (passenger).
Flight operation resumed at the airport after 11 hours. However, three international flights were diverted to Islamabad from Peshawar.
More than 500 suspects have been arrested so far in the ongoing search operation by security forces in the Budh Bher area of the city as well as nearby areas.
The funeral prayers of the deceased woman was offered on Wednesday in Hayatabad Phase 6 and her body was taken to Nowshera for burial.
According to the initial report on the incident, the PIA plane was hit 10 times, however, the pilot managed to land the aircraft safely three minutes after the attack.
A compensation package was also announced for the victims of the attack. Family of the deceased woman will receive Rs0.5 million while the injured will receive Rs0.2 million each.
Security has been increased at the airport following the attack.
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Hereafter we can enjoy flying on a drone. Since a drone is small no one can aim at it with precision. Only a retarded person will now think if flying.
Hummm and lets see what will happen next after registering a case against these na-maloom afraad.
@tahseen:
Please felicitate the KPK government on this since they do not or will not take any action against "Their Own People."
How Embarrassing for US, Our Government is Unable to Protect us from them and now International airline Emrates also warned us about this incident
IK please call for another dharna outside the airport now, because this incident happened in KPK and not Punjab.
According to Information Minister KPK, Firing is a routine incident in this area means we are not killing our own people but we are allowing others to kill ours.
@Adnan Siddiqi: The CM of Punjab has requested Army to provide security to him and his family because he can not trust his own police/security. What a joke.
@salman:
I couldn't agree more! That is the reason that the KPK Police did not even fire a single shot at "Their Own People" who brazenly broke D.I. Khan jail and emancipated some more of "Their Own People."
Why did it take so long to register a case against unidentified men.
who cares IK is bz
Attach on Cricket Team / Spread polio virus in Water / Attack on Karachi Airport and now this incident . Total plan to isolate Pakistan.
Kudos to PTI led government for such exemplary law and order management in KPK.