Taliban militants cornered and killed after airport attack Three were shot dead and two more died when they detonated their suicide vests in a dawn raid at a half-built house near Peshawar airport, security officials said. The gang were the remnants of 10 militants who attacked the military side of the airport with rockets and a car suicide bomb, late on Saturday evening. The attackers failed to get inside the airport, but four civilians from the area were killed and at least 40 wounded during the fire fight. Five of the attackers died in the assault. Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told the AP news agency that police had known some attackers had escaped from the airport. Labourers arrived at the house in Pawaka village the following morning to find armed men inside, and tipped off the police. Three were shot running away and two detonated their bombs. A policeman also died in the shooting. Military officials said the five dead were all Uzbeks. Peshawar airport is used by both military and civilian aircraft. It is the third large military base to be recently attacked by militants.