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Terrorist attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: News of another terrorist attack has come to light in the neighboring country Pakistan. It is being told that at least 38 people were killed in the firing on a passenger van in Down Kurram area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in north-western Pakistan on Thursday. While there is also news of many people getting injured.
According to the information, the attack was carried out by targeting a passenger van traveling in a convoy from Parachinar in Kurram. When the passenger van passed near Ochut Kali and Manduri in Lower Kurram, the terrorists, who had already laid a trap, started firing indiscriminately at the van. The passenger van was going from Parachinar to Peshawar. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhary confirmed the attack.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhary said after the attack that gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles in a tribal area in north-west Pakistan on Thursday. At least 38 people were killed and 29 injured in the attack.
He said that women and a child were also among the dead in the attack in Kurram tribal district. This is a huge loss of life and property and the death toll is expected to increase.
Let us tell you that there has been tension for years between armed Shia and Sunni Muslims over a land dispute in the tribal area on the border of Afghanistan.
No organization has taken responsibility
No terrorist organization has yet taken responsibility for this attack in Pakistan. Ziyarat Hussain, a local resident of Parachinar, told Reuters news agency over phone that two convoys of passenger vehicles, one carrying passengers from Peshawar to Parachinar and the other from Parachinar to Peshawar, were fired upon by gunmen.
There was a terrorist attack yesterday also
Let us tell you that on Wednesday, 12 security personnel were killed in a terrorist attack on a joint check post in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. The attackers attacked the check post with a vehicle filled with explosives. Meanwhile, six attackers were also killed.
The army did not say who was behind it, but Hafiz Gul Bahadur, an Islamic organization, claimed responsibility. This attack took place after approval for a large-scale military operation against Balochistan insurgents.
President Asif Ali Zardari has strongly condemned the incident and expressed his condolences to the families of the deceased. “Attacking innocent passengers is a cowardly and inhumane act,” PPPA said in a post on Twitter. The party said, ‘Those responsible for this incident should be punished. Along with this, he also demanded that the injured should be provided timely medical care.