Gunfire has been heard at Pakistan's Karachi airport training facility - the second attack on the airport in two days.
Ghulam Abbas Memon, a spokesman for the Airport Security Force, says gunmen tried to enter the facility from two different entrances on Tuesday but the security forces were fighting them back.
He did not have any details on the number of attackers or possible casualties.
Pakistani television reported that three militants had been surrounded by security forces at the academy, but no other details were immediately available.
At least four ambulances were seen rushing to the scene.
Pakistan's army said it had deployed troops to reinforce security forces trying to protect the academy.
Seven burned bodies were found in an airport cold storage facility The militants are thought to have gained access to the site via a slum housing area that surrounds it.
All flights in and out of the airport have been suspended "until further notice," a spokesman for Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority said.
The attack comes only a day after gunmen laid siege to Karachi's international airport in an attack that left 36 people dead, including 10 Taliban gunmen.
The Pakistani Taliban said the attack was in revenge for their late leader Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike in November.
The assault destroyed prospects for peace talks between the Pakistani Taliban and the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and triggered speculation that the army might opt for an all-out offensive against militant strongholds.
Earlier on Tuesday, Pakistani fighter jets bombed Taliban positions on the Afghan border.
A body is removed from the burned-out cold storage room "Nine terrorist hideouts were destroyed by early morning military air strikes near the Pakistan-Afghan border," the army's press wing said, adding that 15 militants were killed.
It was unclear if the latest air strikes signalled the start of a broader offensive in the North Waziristan region where the al Qaeda-linked Taliban are based, or indeed if they had been carried out in retaliation for the airport attack.
Meanwhile, seven bodies have been found in a burned-out building at the airport following the previous attack.
The discovery took the death toll from the Taliban attack to 36, including 10 Taliban militants, Pakistani officials said.
The remains of the seven victims, who were burned beyond recognition, were found inside a cold storage unit but it was unclear how they got there or who they were.
Reports suggest they were airport workers who had hidden inside the unit from the fighting but became trapped and burned to death.
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