0ne more gunman killed at Indian airbase one day after attack

Indian security forces Sunday continued to engage with the remaining militants who entered an airbase in northern state of Punjab on the previous day, killing one more gunman.

The renewed exchange of fire resulted in the killing of the militant at the Pathankot airbase where fresh explosions and gunshots rang out again Sunday.

At least two more gunmen were discovered to be still hiding in the airbase after four others were killed on Saturday.

The casualties on the Indian side rose to seven as of Sunday, after an officer of the elite National Security Guards (NSG) was killed when trying to defuse a bomb on the body of a killed, and three more security personnel succumbed to their injuries from the encounter a day earlier.

The airbase was attacked by a group of militants suspected to be operatives of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistan-based group blamed for the December 2001 attack on Indian Parliament that killed 11 people. Endit