KARACHI UNDER ATTACK: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for both attacks

Around three to four gunmen mounted a fresh attack on a security check post outside the airport a day after 37 people were killed after an all-night battle on Monday with militants who besieged Karachi airport’s old terminal, Express News reported.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for both attacks.

No casualties were reported in the latest incident. In the earlier attack, at least 37 people, including 10 terrorists, were reported dead in what is the first large-scale terrorist attack at the country’s largest airport in years.

According to reports, 12 ASF personnel, one each of the police, Rangers and Shaheen Air International are among the deceased. The dead also include eight people who were trapped inside a private company’s cargo office and found dead 28 hours after rescue operations had started. Twenty-six others were also injured in the first assault.