Five suspected terrorists were killed and a policeman injured during an encounter at Baghbanan Road in Peshawar early on Saturday. According to a statement, police arrested three suspected terrorists in the limits of Chamkani Police Station during a routine search. It said four more suspected terrorists ambushed the police when the suspects were being shifted to a police post. They killed the three suspects in police custody, while two of the attackers were also killed in the encounter, the statement added. Three of the dead have been identified as Arab Shah, Abdul Akbar and Musarrat Shah, all residents of Afghanistan. The statement said police had initiated a search operation of the area to arrest the two men who escaped. Also on Saturday morning, unidentified men fired three rockets at Peshawar International Airport from undisclosed locations, but no casualties were reported. A West Cantonment police official said the rockets had landed at 1.30am. Two rockets landed in premises of the airport, while the third one is believed to have landed near Jehangirabad.
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