Pakistani A310 with 178 pax shot and hit, one fatality...

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Pakistani A310 with 178 pax shot and hit, one fatality...

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28010175 :evil:
24 June 2014 Last updated at 20:20 GMT

Gunmen have opened fire on a passenger plane arriving at Peshawar airport in Pakistan, media and police say.

The Pakistan International Airlines plane - flight PK756 - was carrying some 178 passengers on a flight from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.

One person has died from their wounds and and at least two were injured.

Pakistan's Dawn newspaper said security forces had cordoned off the Bacha Khan airport site in Peshawar and had launched a hunt for the gunmen.

It reported that an injured flight attendant had been taken to hospital but that one woman had died of her injuries on the way.

Police officer Dost Muhammad Khan told Associated Press five bullets had hit the plane.

The jet suffered a heavy landing, injuring a number of other passengers.

PIA official Mohammad Kifayatullah Khan told Reuters he had entered the plane and saw the fatally injured woman on her seat.

He said: "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."

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