For the second time in two days, gunmen in Pakistan attacked a training facility for airport police near the Karachi airport Tuesday, forcing Pakistan's largest and busiest airport to temporarily shut down suspension of flights and trigger a brief shootout, the Associated Press reported.
Tuesday's assault targeted the Airport Security Forces academy near Karachi's Jinnah International Airport, the airport's manager told CNN's Saima Mohsin in Karachi.
When an unknown number of gunmen attacked the academy's entrance, law enforcement personnel managed to quickly repulse the attack by as many as three gunmen, security forces told CNN.
The attackers fled, and no one was killed in the attack, officials said.
A resurgent Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault and warned that its violence "wasn't over yet."
"This wave of attacks will be continuing in retaliation for the shelling and atrocities of the government," spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said by phone Tuesday from an undisclosed location.
With the launch of new airstrikes on militants in its northwestern tribal region, it is being questioned whether Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will abandon government-sponsored peace talks with the Taliban for an aggressive military offensive.
On late Sunday night, the same airport's cargo was stormed by ten militants, leading to an hours-long siege that left 36 people dead, including the assailants, CNN reported.
Claiming the attack was retaliation for the death of former chief Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in November in North Waziristan, the Taliban claimed responsibility for then assault.
The militant group, also known as the TTP, had warned of more carnage starting Tuesday
Taliban would engage "in a full-out war with the Pakistani state, starting on June 10," Shahid said earlier this week.
However, the airport was reported to be safe on Tuesday, Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority said.
"#Jinnah Airport is safe, #ASF academy is under attack," the aviation authority tweeted Tuesday.
By Tuesday afternoon, the situation was "under control," military spokesman Asim Bajwa said.
"3 to 4 terrorists fired near ASF Camp, ran away," Bajwa tweeted. "No breach of fence, no Entry. Chase is on, situation under control."
