Over 40 people are feared dead and more than 29 were injured after gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles in a tribal area in northwestern Pakistan. Women and children died in the terror attack. The death toll may go up.
The news of terror attack was confirmed by Chief Secretary for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, stating that the gunmen targeted passenger vans travelling from Parachinar in Kurram in a convoy.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari strongly condemned the attack on passenger vehicles. “Attacking innocent passengers is a cowardly and inhumane act,” he wrote in a post on X.
Pakistan Peoples Party’s chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari also condemned the attack, saying that those involved in the incident must be brought to justice.
Since decades, tensions have existed for decades between armed Shia and Sunni Muslims over a land dispute in the tribal area that borders Afghanistan.
