Flight operations resume from Peshawar airport post-terror strike (Update Flight)

Flight operations at Peshawar's Bacha Khan Airport resumed on Wednesday after being temporarily suspended following Tuesday night's terror strike on a landing plane.

The Dawn newspaper quoted a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) statement, as saying that routes leading to the airport had been cleared for traffic.

Last night unidentified gunmen attacked the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing PK-756 as it came in to land at Peshawar's Bacha Khan airport, killing a woman and injuring two flight stewards on board.

The PIA Boeing PK-756 had 196 passengers on board, arriving from Riyadh when it was fired upon.

The firing injured three people including two flight stewards and a woman, who later succumbed to her wounds.

The plane was hit by six bullets, police said, killing the woman and narrowly missing the captain. At least one bullet struck the plane's engine, they added.

The woman's daughter was sitting next to her when she was shot in the head.

The army and police personnel have conducted a search operation and arrested over 100 suspects.

Security has also been beefed up on all the routes to the airport, additional personnel of security forces were also been posted.

An FIR has not been registered over the attack but flight operations have resumed and the CAA confirmed that the airport was opened.