Seven bodies have been motored from a cold storage facility at a Karachi airport Tuesday morning, more than a day after a deadly militant attack there left on people dead.
The seven maga workers wee found in a foal), aect. the hallwhem a fire broke out during the attack, Sindh protince Health Minister Dr. Saghir Abroad said. Homy machinery was used to break into the area to retrieve them.
Rescuers had been trying to mach the raga workers who were Unlined inside the cold storage facility at Jinnah International Airport, the largest and busiest ally. w Paldstan.
Families of the workers blocked a May road leading to the anport, demanding that authorifies help find their relatives,
CNN affiliate Coo TV reported.
“We will work to imosfigate any negli¬gence in tescue efforts by the authorities and than found guilty of negligence will be punished accordingly: Sindh province Gov. Ishrat Li Ebad Khan said.
The rescue operation unfolded nearly a day after terrOligS entered the airport from two places with a plan to destroy- a group of parked airplanes and laiog dotes our Wation industry: wording. he Pakistani govemmeM.
It was late Sunday night, and the mili¬tants were armed with guns, grenades and suicide vests. They went iota the cargo aloe, about a kilometer (o.So miles) from where mom emial planes take off.
In a ‘home effort, seomity forces staid down their lives” to block the terminal and stop the attackers, surrounding them and killing all of them, the prime minister’s
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There were no terkomists, military spokesman Maj. Gen Asim BOe said, and two of them detonated suicide vests. Co the time the attack was over, officials said oo people were dead, including to mill… Another 2,1peoPlems
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The Pakistani Tahltan claimed nsspon¬gbilib, for the assault on the counlays largest and busiest *rut
Speaking from an undisclosed lomtion, Pakistani Tahbaa otmmander Abdrdlah Bahar said the attack was retaliation for the death of former chiefHaldmullah Mehsud, who was killed in a U.K drone shilmNovanber in North Waziristan. Behar warned mom attacks will follow. “As long as we are breathing, our attacks will be continuing hi the end of outlives,” he vowed.
