June 03, 2014 04:11 pm | Updated 04:16 pm IST - Islamabad
Two Pakistan Air Force (PAF) pilots were killed on Tuesday when their plane crashed into a bus terminal in Karachi.
It went down in the Baldia Town area of the city during a routine training mission, a spokesman said.
“Pakistan Air Force informs with deep sorrow and grief that two pilots embraced martyrdom in the aircraft crash,” Air Commodore Tariq Mahmood said in a statement.
He named the victims as Wing Commander Khurram Sammad and Squadron Leader Umair Elahi.
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