Militants attack Pakistani airbases, eight gunmen killed

Gunmen armed with automatic weapons, grenades and wearing suicide vests attacked two military airbases in southwestern Pakistan early Friday, leaving eight militants dead after Pakistan security forces opened fire, officials said. Sarfaraz Bugti, the home minister of insurgency-hit Baluchistan province, said that militants had tried to storm the Samungli airbase, used by Pakistan's Air Force, and Khalid military airbase, both in the provincial capital Quetta, but had failed to penetrate either perimeter. ‘The operation at both the bases is over and eight militants have been killed, five at Samungli and three others at Khalid airbase,’ Colonel Maqbool Ahmed, in charge of the operation has said, according to AFP.