Pakistan airport attackers killed in battle

Five Taliban fighters were killed in a battle with security forces today after they fled to a village in north-western Pakistan near an international airport they helped attack the night before, officials said.

The militants were hiding in an unfinished house in the village, located about two miles from the airport in Peshawar, said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister in surrounding Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.