Asap mengepuh dari Lapangan
Terbang Antarabangsa Jinnah di Karachi 9 Jun 2014 (Smoke billows from Jinnah
International Airport in Karachi June 9, 2014 (Reuters/Athar Hussain)
Srikandi - Sekurang-kurangnya
13 orang awam terbunuh selepas sekumpulan Taliban terlatih menyamar sebagai
pengawal keselamatan menyerbu lapangan terbang di Karachi, bandar terbesar di
Pakistan. Kebuntuan yang berlaku, diikuti dengan letupan besar. 3 pengganas
dilaporkan masih di dalam.
Direktorat
Antara Perkhidmatan Perhubungan Awam - sebuah organisasi tentera pentadbiran
dalam Angkatan Pertahanan Pakistan - pada mulanya mengumumkan bahawa semua
Taliban disingkirkan tidak lama lagi selepas penjuru di 2 kawasan di dalam
lapangan terbang. Bagaimanapun, 3 masih kekal di dalam sebagai banyak tem-bakan
kedengaran. Jumlah militan terbunuh kini mencecah 10.
"Kami
melakukan serangan ini di lapangan terbang Karachi dan ia adalah satu mesej
kepada kerajaan Pakistan yang kita masih hidup untuk bertindak balas ke atas
pem-bunuhan orang yang tidak bersalah dalam serangan bom ke atas kampung-kampung
mereka," jurucakap cawangan Pakistan Taliban berkata dalam satu kenyataan
men-dakwa bertanggungjawab terhadap serangan itu, menurut perkhidmatan berita
Subuh.
Blasts,
gunshots, fatalities as Taliban STORM
Pakistan's Largest AIRPORT . . .
At
least 13 civilians have been killed after a well-trained Taliban group
disguised as security guards stormed the airport in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest
city. A standoff ensued, followed by a large blast. Three terrorists are
reportedly still inside.
The
Directorate of Inter-Services Public Relations – an administrative military
organization within the Pakistan Defense Forces – initially announced that all
the Taliban were eliminated soon after being cornered at two areas inside the
airport. However, three still remain inside as more gunfire is heard. The total
number of militants killed now stands at 10.
“We
carried out this attack on the Karachi airport and it is a message to the
Pakistan government that we are still alive to react over the killings of
innocent people in bomb attacks on their villages,” the spokesman for the
Pakistani branch of the Taliban said in a statement claiming responsibility for
the attack, according to the the Dawn news service.
Pekerja penyelamat bergerak
seorang tentera yang tercedera dalam serangan di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa
Jinnah, di luar hospital Jinnah di Karachi 9 Jun 2014 (Rescue workers move a
soldier, who was wounded in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, outside
Jinnah hospital in Karachi June 9, 2014 (Reuters)
'Mereka
terlatih. Rancangan mereka telah sangat terancang baik,'' Ketua Menteri wilayah
Sindh, Qaim Ali Shah kepada pemberita.
Pegawai
melaporkan sekurang-kurangnya 23 kematian dalam serangan itu, di mana 10 yang dipunyai
oleh Taliban, menurut AP. Ia melaporkan bahawa sekurang-kurang-nya 15 yang lain
telah cedera. Pasukan keselamatan telah menyapu terminal sebelum membiarkan
pegawai lapangan terbang dibuka semula sepenuhnya.
Channel
News Asia melaporkan, memetik sumber perisikan kanan sebagai berkata bahawa
beberapa militan ditemui memakai seragam biru muda.
"Salah
seorang daripada mereka meletupkannya apabila dia ditembak," menunjukkan
dia memakai jaket berani mati. Pelancar roket dan 4 SMGs telah pulih daripada
peng-ganas dibunuh. Terkini laporan menunjukkan bahawa letupan tambahan telah
diden-gar. Seorang wartawan AFP di tempat kejadian berkata letupan dikhuatiri
menjadi letupan bom berani mati.
Militan
melancarkan bom tangan dan melepaskan tembakan kerana mereka memasuki Lapangan
Terbang Antarabangsa Jinnah. Sekurang-kurangnya 3 letupan kedengaran apabila
kecemasan lapangan terbang telah diisytiharkan, dengan operasi penerbangan
digantung, melaporkan Post tempatan Karachi.
Militan
dilaporkan pengenalan palsu pas ASF dan memasuki terminal lama lapangan terbang
itu, yang dikenali sebagai Fokker Gate. Angkatan penyelamat telah dihantar dan
dibenarkan masuk ke dalam kawasan itu selepas halus diperiksa, menurut Subuh.
‘They
were well trained. Their plan was very well thought out,’’ the Chief Minister
of Sindh province, Qaim Ali Shah told reporters.
Officials
report at least 23 fatalities in the attack, of which 10 belonged to the
Taliban, according to the AP. It is reported that at least 15 others have been
injured. Security forces were sweeping the terminals before letting airport
officials resume its full operation.
Channel
News Asia reports, citing a senior intelligence source as saying that some
militants were found wearing a light blue uniform.
"One
of them blew up when he was shot," indicating he was wearing a suicide
vest. A rocket launcher and four SMGs were recovered from the slain terrorists.
Latest reports indicate that additional blasts have been heard. An AFP reporter
at the scene said that the blasts are feared to be suicide bomb explosions.
The
militants launched grenades and opened fire as they entered Jinnah
International Airport. At least three blasts were heard when an airport
emergency has been declared, with flight operations suspended, reported the
local Karachi Post.
The
militants reportedly forged ASF identification passes and entered the airport’s
old terminal, known as Fokker Gate. Rescue forces have been dispatched and are
being allowed to pass into the area after being intricately checked, according
to Dawn.
Fresh
gunfire at #Karachi
airport, security operation resumes http://gulfnews.com/news/world/pakistan/attack-on-pakistan-s-main-airport-leaves-24-dead-1.1344670 …12:37 PM - 9
Jun 2014
Terdahulu
ia melaporkan bahawa salah satu roket bom tangan (RPGs) dalam milik pengganas
'dilepaskan ke arah kapal terbang, wartawan Ali Kamran Chishti dilaporkan pada
Twitternya.
Tayangan
televisyen menunjukkan kepulan asap yang semakin meningkat dari landa-san dan
kebakaran di mana pesawat itu diletakkan.
2
pesawat terdampar di landasan di Jinnah Terminal lapangan terbang dan penum-pang
sedang disoal siasat kerana mereka diarahkan untuk meninggalkan, kata Chishti.
"Semua
penerbangan ditakdirkan untuk Karachi telah dialihkan ke bandar-bandar
lain," kata seorang jurucakap pihak berkuasa penerbangan awam.
"Pengganas
mempunyai walkie talkie, telefon satelit - senjata berat - mereka berada di
sini untuk jarak jauh," Chishti menulis tweet.
Tambahnya
ahli politik Pakistan, Farooq Sattar, yang mengetuai parti politik MQM
dilaporkan di salah satu daripada pesawat.
Satu
lagi serangan pengganas dilaporkan sekitar masa yang sama kedudukan lapangan
terbang itu yang berlaku - satu pengeboman berani mati di barat daya negara
ini, di mana 23 kematian lain telah berlaku. Sasaran serangan kedua adalah
kumpulan pen-ziarah pulang dari Iran, pihak berkuasa kepada AP.
Earlier
it was reported that one of the rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) in the
terrorists’ possession was fired towards a plane, journalist Ali Kamran Chishti
reported on his Twitter.
Television
footage showed plumes of smoke rising from the runway and fires where planes
were parked.
Two
planes stranded on the runway at the airport’s Jinnah Terminal and the
passengers are being interrogated as they are directed to leave, Chishti said.
"All
flights destined for Karachi have been diverted to other cities," said a
civil aviation authority spokesman.
“Terrorists
have walkie talkies, satellite phones - heavy weapons - they are here for the
long-haul,” Chishti tweeted.
He
added that Pakistani politician, Farooq Sattar, who leads the MQM political
party is reportedly on one of the planes.
Yet
another terrorist attack was reported around the same time the airport
situation was taking place - a suicide bombing in the southwest of the country,
where another 23 fatalities had occurred. The target of the second assault were
a group of Shiite pilgrims returning from Iran, authorities told the AP.
Tentera Pakistan askar2 duduk
di atas kenderaan mereka tiba di Lapangan Terbang Antara-bangsa Jinnah di
Karachi 9 Jun 2014 (Pakistan Army soldiers sit on a vehicle as they arrive at
Jinnah International Airport in Karachi June 9, 2014 (Reuters/Athar Hussain)
Pengeboman
berani mati berlaku di sebuah hotel di bandar Tuftan berhampiran sempa-dan Iran,
dan melibatkan 4 pengebom berani mati, menurut Menteri Dalam Negeri wilayah
Baluchistan yang ini Mir Safraz Bugti.
Kumpulan
pulang dari Iran diiringi oleh keselamatan, yang mengambil salah satu daripada
pengebom, tetapi 3 yang lain telah berjaya masuk ke dalam hotel. Letupan dari
jaket mereka juga mencederakan 10 orang.
Pakistan
telah melancarkan perang terhadap pemberontakan Islam tempatan selama lebih
daripada 10 tahun, yang menelan belanja negara beribu-ribu nyawa. Pada tahun
2011, lelaki bersenjata Taliban menyerang sebuah pangkalan tentera laut
Karachi, memusnahkan 2 pesawat Orion buatan Amerika Syarikat dan membunuh 10
kakitan-gan dalam pengepungan 17 jam.
The
suicide bombing took place at a hotel in the town of Tuftan near the Iranian border,
and involved four suicide bombers, according to the Baluchistan province's Home
Minister Mir Safraz Bugti. The group returning from Iran was accompanied by
security, who took out one of the bombers, but the other three had managed to
get inside the hotel. The blast from their vests also injured 10 people.
Pakistan
has been waging war against a homegrown Islamist insurgency for more than ten
years, which cost the country thousands of lives. In 2011, Taliban gunmen
attacked a Karachi naval base, destroying two US-made Orion aircraft and
killing ten staff in a 17-hour siege.
Goolge map
Lapangan
Terbang Antarabangsa Jinnah adalah airhub yang terbesar dan paling sibuk di
Pakistan. Pada tahun 2013, lebih 16,065,465 penumpang menggunakan terminal antarabangsa
dan domestik. Lebih 113,000 pesawat menggunakan perkhidmatannya tahun lepas,
pengendalian atas lebih purata 44,000 penumpang sehari.
Jinnah
International Airport is the largest and busiest airhub in Pakistan. In 2013,
over 16,065,465 passengers used its international and domestic terminals. Over
113,000 planes used its services last year, handling on an average more than
44,000 passengers a day
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