Peshawar plane attack: Cops recover 24 bullet shells from Sulemankhel

Pakistan police have recovered at least 24 types of different bullet shells from Sulemankhel, an area near Peshawar airport, from where gunmen fired on a landing pane, killing a female passenger and injuring two crew members.

According to Dawn.com, investigation office Tajmalook Khan said that the bullet shells were recovered from a dried-up water channel in Sulemankhel included Short Machine Guns (SMGs), G3 and AK 47 which might have been used to target the PIA flight.

Khan said that further information in the case would be collected after coordination with the pilot and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), adding that it would help in establishing if the same kind of bullets were used to target the aircraft, the report said.

The recent gun attack on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight in Peshawar is said to be the handiwork of Taliban's Tariq Geedar group.

Security officials said that the Tariq Geedar group of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was based in Darra Adamkhel and was headed by one Khalfa.

An official claimed that the police had found some important leads in the attack at the Peshawar airport.

The official revealed that the militants used the roof of a school in Suliemankhel, an area near Peshawar, to target the flight as it was landing at the Bacha Khan International Airport late on Tuesday night.