PESHAWAR: Special police units on Thursday arrested a woman facilitator of the PAF Badaber attack from the Telaband area of the provincial capital.

Police officials claimed that the woman, Zar Zadgai, has confessed to facilitating the terrorists who launched the attack on the PAF installation.

Read: Badaber attack reprehensible, says US

The security source also claimed that Zadgai has confessed to providing food and empty plastic bottles for storing chemicals to the terrorists.

In wake of the brazen assault, search and strike operations were initiated in Badaber and Matani areas during which police arrested at least 28 suspects, including 8 Afghan nationals.

In what appea­red to be a precisely planned and executed attack, terrorists displayed their ability to breach the security of an Air Force camp by carrying out one of the deadliest assaults on a defence installation on the southern fringes of the provincial capital, Dawn newspaper reported.

Also read: Army captain among 29 killed in TTP-claimed attack on PAF camp in Peshawar

Twenty-nine people — among them personnel of the Pakistan Air Force and military and some civilians — lost their lives and all 13 militants who had stormed the camp were also killed.

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