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Nine militants were killed after launching a failed pre-dawn attack on an air force training base in the central Pakistani area of Mianwali on Saturday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan army, said in a statement.
The attackers stormed the airbase in the wee hours of Saturday morning and three of them were killed before they could enter the airbase while the remaining six were killed after being cornered inside the building, the ISPR said.
"The successful operation was launched by security forces to eliminate any potential threat in the surrounding area following the cowardly and failed terrorist attack on the base this morning," said the statement.
No damage has been done to any of the Pakistan Air Force's functional or operational assets, while only some damage was done to three already phased-out non-operational aircraft during the attack, the ISPR said.
A newly founded militant group, Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan (TJP), claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the group's spokesman.