Suicide bombing at Islamabad airport, security official wounded

Описание: (7 Feb 2007) SHOTLIST
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Exterior of airport through fence, pull out to wide
2. Ambulance driving past - pan to damaged car
3. Scorch marks and debris on road
4. Media
5. Various exteriors of airport, and security at scene
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Police officer, No Name Given:
"Well, I say my security forces, they have done a wonderful job. They have blocked him, the have stopped him. They fought back, they fired on him. They did not allow him to enter the airport, not even the parking area, not the building. There are only three persons injured and they are from the security forces. One is from the police, the others are from airport security force."
7. People outside airport
8. Exterior of hospital
9. Various of injured officer being treated
10. UPSOUND (Urdu) injured airport security force constable, (no name available):
"He (the attacker) was running, thirty to forty bullets hit him, seven eight policemen were behind him, when bullets hit his foot, he fell down on the ground and he exploded himself."
11. Mid shot injured officer
STORYLINE:
Police thwarted a suspected suicide attacker at the airport serving Pakistan's capital late on Tuesday after a shootout and blast that killed the attacker and wounded three police, officials said.
The attacker opened fire with a pistol on police who challenged him as he entered the main entrance to the airport on foot, according to police in Rawalpindi where the airport is located.
After an exchange of fire, the attacker pulled out a grenade that fell at his feet and exploded, killing him, police said, adding that they suspected he had been a suicide attacker and were examining whether more explosives had been attached to his body.
Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said it was a suicide attack, but had no further details.
Witnesses said the forecourt of the airport terminal was crowded with hundreds of people when the attack happened around 9:10 p.m. (1610GMT).
"He (the attacker) was running, thirty to forty bullets hit him, seven eight policemen were behind him, when bullets hit his foot, he fell down on the ground and he exploded himself," one of the injured security officers said from his hospital bed.
The bombing follows a series of suicide attacks targeting security forces in northwestern Pakistan where pro-Taliban militants are active, and a January 26 blast at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel that killed one security guard and wounded seven other people.
Authorities have yet to identify the Marriott Hotel attacker, but suspect the bombings may have been in retaliation to a recent Pakistani army airstrike on a suspected al-Qaida hideout near the Afghan border that a prominent Pakistani militant vowed to avenge.
In December 2003, al-Qaida bombers targeted President General Pervez Musharraf - a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terror - twice within 11 days in Rawalpindi, which houses the headquarters of Pakistan's army.
Musharraf escaped unhurt but at least 16 other people were killed.

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