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No group has taken responsibility for the incident. Ziarat Hussain, a local resident of Parachinar, told news agency Reuters over telephone. There were two convoys of passenger vehicles, one from Peshawar to Parachinar and the other from Parachinar to Peshawar, when armed men opened fire on them. Relatives in the convoy were going from Peshawar. President Asif Ali Zardari strongly condemned the attack on passenger vehicles in a statement.
Gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles in a tribal area in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 38 people and wounding 29, Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, chief secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said. A woman and a child were among those killed in the attack in the Kurram tribal district, Chaudhary said, adding, “This is a major tragedy and the death toll is likely to rise. In the tribal area bordering Afghanistan Tension has persisted for decades between armed Shia and Sunni Muslims over a land dispute.
No group has taken responsibility for the incident. Ziarat Hussain, a local resident of Parachinar, told news agency Reuters over telephone. There were two convoys of passenger vehicles, one from Peshawar to Parachinar and the other from Parachinar to Peshawar, when armed men opened fire on them. Relatives in the convoy were going from Peshawar. President Asif Ali Zardari strongly condemned the attack on passenger vehicles in a statement.
