Inside help suspected in PNS Mehran base attack

Security officials said Thursday they doubted a 17-hour Taliban siege on a strategic naval air base could have been possible without some kind of inside help. "The investigation team will question all those who were present at the time of the attack," a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "The way the militants attacked means they had maps and were aware of all the directions inside the base," the official added.
"We suspect that someone inside the base helped them. We are collecting data about all the staff and will also examine their phone data." "We have recovered some technical gadgets which prove that they were very well trained, they had night vision goggles and were using wireless devices to communicate," another official told AFP.