At least 42 people have been killed while 14 others were critically injured after three vehicles in Kurram Agency
Peshawar: At least 42 people have been killed while 14 others were critically injured after three vehicles in Kurram Agency, a remote area of Pakistan’s Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP) province, were ambushed by militants.
Officials said that all the buses carrying locals, on the way from Parachinar to Peshawar, were mostly from the Shia community.
“42 people have died as a result of firing on passenger vehicles in Kurram district. These include women as well. 14 of them have no IDs. We are trying to get in touch with their relatives,” said a police official.
The Shia-dominated Parachinar area has had bloody confrontational clashes with the surrounding areas of the Sunni majority in the past.
No militant groups have claimed responsibility for the attack while the security forces have initiated a search operation to track down the attackers.
