{"id":25625,"date":"2024-11-22T05:55:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=25625"},"modified":"2024-11-22T05:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:57:54","slug":"41-killed-in-deadly-assault-on-a-convoy-of-passenger-vehicles-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/11\/41-killed-in-deadly-assault-on-a-convoy-of-passenger-vehicles-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"41 killed in deadly assault on a convoy of passengers in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – At least 41 people – including women and children – have been killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on a convoy of 200 passenger vehicles traveling through a remote area of Pakistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The vehicles were attacked as they travelled through the tribal district of Kurram in Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, according to the area’s deputy police commissioner, reported BBC.<\/p>\n

The gunmen initially targeted the convoy’s police escort, the provincial spokesman said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Police were protecting the convoy following months of sectarian violence in the area, which has claimed dozens of lives this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Police have told the BBC that 41 people were killed in Thursday’s attack and an additional 16 more were critically injured.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, the chief secretary of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told Reuters news agency the attack was “a major tragedy”, with the death toll “likely to rise”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Details of exactly what happened are still emerging, but Javed ullah Mehsud, a senior administration official, told AFP “approximately 10 attackers” were involved, “firing indiscriminately from both sides of the road”.<\/p>\n

Women and children had hidden in nearby houses, while police hunted for the attackers, he added.<\/p>\n

Most the passengers travelling in the convoy through the mountainous area were Shia, he said in an earlier statement.<\/p>\n

Sunni and Shia Muslim tribes have clashed repeatedly this year. An earlier series of attacks ended after a tribal council called for a ceasefire, according to Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

Then last month, there was another attack on passenger vehicles along a road in the region which killed 15 people.<\/p>\n

The road Thursday’s convoy was travelling along had only reopened in recent days, with travel limited to convoys with police protection.<\/p>\n

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