Peshawar, PAKISTAN (Reuters) – At the very least 11 individuals have been killed, together with a girl and little one, on Thursday, following a gun assault on passenger vans in a tribal space in northwestern Pakistan, the chief secretary of the province mentioned.
The assault focused passenger vans travelling from Parachinar in Kurram in a convoy, confirmed Chief Secretary for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry.
Tensions have existed for many years between armed Shia and Sunni Muslims over a land dispute within the tribal space that borders Afghanistan.
No group claimed accountability for the incident.
“There were two convoys of passenger vehicles, one carrying passengers from Peshawar to Parachinar and another from Parachinar to Peshawar, when armed men opened fire on them,” a local resident of Parachinar, Ziarat Hussain told Reuters by telephone, adding that his relatives were travelling from Peshawar in the convoy.
President Asif Ali Zardari, in a statement, strongly condemned the attack on passenger vehicles.
