PESHAWAR: A mysterious air crash occured in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Nowshera area on Wednesday.

DPO Nowshera was earlier reported as saying that a Mushak trainer jet, which was on a routine training mission, had crashed and half of the planes fuselage was recovered from the River Indus.

He had further said that a search for the pilot and co-pilot was underway.

However, Waseem Khan, the Assistant Director Media of the Pakistan Air Force denied that any PAF aircraft had crashed and that the fleet strength of the PAF was complete.

He further said that the reports could pertain to the dumping of a used fuel tank and that investigations into the incident were underway.

Moreover in a separate incident Peshawar police conducted a raid in Karkhano market area of the provincial capital city and arrested two suspects. Police claimed to have recovered two bombs and suicide vests from the arrested suspects.

Another suspect was taken into custody by police during a raid in Peshawar's Hasan Garhi area.

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