ISLAMABAD, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- At least 16 people were killed when militants attacked a mosque located inside an air force camp in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city on Friday, army said.
Major General Asim Bajwa, director general of Inter-Service Public Relations, the mouthpiece of Pakistani army, said that the militants entered the camp, located in Badaber area of Peshawar, from two different points and split into subgroups.
One group attacked the guards' room of the base and the army's quick response force was encountering it; another quickly rushed to the mosque, killing 16 people praying inside there.
After an hour long encounter, the army killed 13 militants after surrounding them while a clearance operation continues in the area.
Identities of the killed people have not been revealed yet, while the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) took credit of the attack, according to local media.
The attack was launched on early Friday morning when a group of militants attacked the camp located on the outskirts of Peshawar city, the capital of the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
The attack left one officer killed and 10 others injured including two officers and eight soldiers, Bajwa said.
The country's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the killing of 16 people and the army officer in the militants' attack.
