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| 18 dead in Pakistan sectarian bus ambush |
| 2012-02-28 |
| Sectarian gunmen ambushed a bus on Tuesday, killing 18 Shiite Muslims in a usually peaceful region of northern Pakistan that neighbours the former Taliban stronghold of Swat, officials said. The bus was stopped, before passengers were ordered off and shot in the mountainous district of Kohistan as it travelled from Rawalpindi, the city where Pakistan's army is headquartered, to the northern city of Gilgit. "Armed men hiding on both sides of the road attacked the bus," local police chief Mohammad Ilyas said. "Eighteen people have died and eight wounded," he added. The ambush happened near the town of Harban, 130 miles (208 kilometres) north of the capital Islamabad. Survivors said seven or eight gunmen stopped the bus, forced the passengers to get off and then opened fire, regional administration chief Khalid Omarzai told AFP by telephone, confirming the casualty numbers. "It appears to be a sectarian attack," local MP Abdul Sattar Khan said. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 ...usually peaceful region ... Snort, gag, ROFL. That anybody could write that about any part of Paki-Waki land is too hilarious. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-02-28 12:52 |
| #2 Update Gunmen wearing military uniforms stopped a convoy of buses in northern Pakistan on Tuesday, ordered selected passengers to get off and then killed 16 of them in an apparent sectarian attack, the police and a lawmaker said. The victims were Shiite Muslims, a minority in Pakistan that is frequently targeted by extremists from the majority Sunni community, said lawmaker Abdul Sattar. The gunmen spared several dozen other people in the four-bus convoy. |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-02-28 11:11 |
| #1 As the primary Shiite government in all the Islamic world, doesn't Iran have a duty to protect Shia in Pakistan? Maybe they should send the Republican Guard into Pakistan to hunt down and kill the offending Sunni. If Pakistan's nukes can reach India they can reach Iran... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-02-28 10:36 |