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| One dead, three injured after gunmen fire on Pakistan airline flight | |
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| Gunmen fired on a Pakistan International Airlines plane as it landed in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday night, killing a woman on board and injuring three crew members in the third incident at a Pakistani airport this month. | |
| The plane was carrying 178 passengers travelling from Saudi Arabia when it came under attack, policeman Asghar Khan said at the airport. | The plane was carrying 178 passengers travelling from Saudi Arabia when it came under attack, policeman Asghar Khan said at the airport. |
| The plane was hit by six bullets, police said, killing the Pakistani woman and narrowly missing the captain. At least one bullet struck the plane's engine, police said. | |
| The woman's daughter was sitting next to her when she was shot in the head, PIA official Mohammad Kifayatullah Khan said. | |
| "When I went inside the plane, I saw the woman lying on the seat and her nine-year-old daughter was crying, 'My mother is dead, my mother is dead'," said Khan. | |
| "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." | |
| The incident will raise further questions about whether the government is really prepared to retaliate against the Taliban after it announced a military operation to flush the militants from their mountain strongholds in North Waziristan on June 15. | |
| Pakistani jets have pounded suspected militant hideouts and the Taliban have vowed counter attacks. |