Pak launches probe into Taliban attack on Kamra airbase

August 17, 2012 23:38

The Pakistan Air Force today launched an investigation into a Taliban attack on a key airbase that left two security personnel and nine militants dead, officials said. An investigation committee led by Air Marshal Athar Hussain Bukhari had formally started a probe into yesterday's attack on the Kamra airbase in Punjab province, said PAF spokesman Group Captain Tariq Mahmood.

The committee visited the Karma airbase today as part of its investigation, Mahmood said. A group of heavily armed terrorists yesterday launched a pre-dawn attack on the airbase at Kamra, 60 km northwest of Islamabad.

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