Gunmen planned to blow up plane in Pakistan by hitting fuel tank


  • World
  • Wednesday, 25 Jun 2014

Members of the Airport Security Force (ASF) guard the premises of Jinnah International Airport, after a gunfire attack on a security academy run by the ASF in Karachi June 10, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

PESHAWAR Pakistan (Reuters) - Holed up deep inside a Taliban-friendly neighbourhood, gunmen waited patiently for the passenger plane to approach the airport before raising their guns into the night sky and unleashing a hail of bullets to shoot it down.

Although only eight bullets hit the plane, one woman was killed and three crew members were wounded as the Airbus 310 plane carrying 178 passengers from Saudi Arabia landed in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday night.

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