At least eight persons were killed and eight others wounded in armed persons’ firing on passenger vehicles besides 45 persons were also abducted along with the vehicle, Geo News reported.
Unknown armed persons opened fires on a caravan of vehicles on way to Parachanar from Tul at Bugan area of lower Kurram Agency. Two vehicles were set on fire by the armed persons, report said. The injured have been shifted to Sada Hospital of Kurram Agency.
Following the incident, the forces cordoned off the area and started search operation.
More than twenty persons have lost their lives in four attacks on passenger vehicles since the peace agreement made one and a half month ago.
Eight people were killed and five wounded Friday when gunmen opened fire on two vehicles carrying Shia Muslims in Pakistan’s Kurram tribal region in suspected sectarian violence, officials said.Unknown armed persons opened fires on a caravan of vehicles on way to Parachanar from Tul at Bugan area of lower Kurram Agency. Two vehicles were set on fire by the armed persons, report said. The injured have been shifted to Sada Hospital of Kurram Agency.
Following the incident, the forces cordoned off the area and started search operation.
More than twenty persons have lost their lives in four attacks on passenger vehicles since the peace agreement made one and a half month ago.
The vehicles were ambushed in the Bagan town of Kurram district, near the Afghan border, and the victims “were all Shia Muslims”, a security official said.
The area has a history of sectarian clashes between Pakistan’s majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shias.
Local administration official Fazal Hussain told AFP the Shias in a three-vehicle caravan were heading from the northwestern city of Parachinar to Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“The attackers came in two vehicles. They opened fire and fled, leaving eight people dead, including a woman and a child,” he said.
