AlHijjah 04, 1436, September 18, 2015, SPA -- Pakistani militants killed 17 people at an air force base in the troubled north-west on Friday, while 13 attackers died, the military said, according to dpa. Over a dozen militants wearing uniforms of the paramilitary Constabulary force attacked Badaber air base in the suburbs of Peshawar city in the early morning, army spokesman Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa said. One group targeted a mosque inside the base and killed 16 people at morning prayer, he said, without saying whether they were civilians. An army captain was also killed as security forces surrounded the militants and killed 13 of them, Bajwa said. Ten soldiers were injured including two officers, he tweeted earlier.
