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Eight killed in suspected sectarian shooting in Kurram
[Dawn] Eight people were killed and five maimed Friday when gunnies opened fire on two vehicles carrying Shia Mohammedans in Pakistain's Kurram tribal region in suspected sectarian violence, officials said.The vehicles were ambushed in the Bagan town of Kurram district, near the Afghan border, and the victims "were all Shia Mohammedans", a security official said. The area has a history of sectarian festivities between Pakistain's majority Sunni Mohammedans 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 Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province. "The attackers came in two vehicles. They opened fire and decamped, leaving eight people dead, including a woman and a child," he said. Posted by: Fred 2011-03-26 |
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