Lower Kurrum/Peshawar (Newsman): In a gruesome act of terror, unidentified gunmen killed 38 people including innocent kids and women in an attack on passenger vans, besides injuring 11 others in Ochat area of Lower Kurrum district of Khyber Pukhtunkhaw (KPK) on Thursday.
The attackers, who first attacked the police escort and then besieged two convoys of the passenger vans in Ochat area of Lower Kurrum district of KPK province and resorted to Indiscriminate firing, resulting in killing of 38 passengers and injuring around 11 others. The attackers fled from the scene.
Ahmady Shama Station House Officer Kaleem Shah confirmed to the media that 38 people were killed in the attack and around one dozen injured in the incident.
Deputy Commissioner Lower Kurrum district, Javedullah Mahsud, told the media that the gun men attacked two conveys of passenger vans, which were carrying people belonging to Shiat community.
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KPK Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhary said the injured were airlifted to Peshawar and Tehsil Headquarters Hospital for immediate medical treatment. He said it was a gruesome act of terror. KPK government spokesman, Barrister Saif, called Lower Kurram’s incident as a cowardly act.
He said the investigations into the incident was in progress.
Interior minister, Syed Mohsin Naqvi told media persons that the gunmen attacked innocent passengers in Lower Kurrum district of KPK and its extremely unfortunate.
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He said KPK is a province of Pakistan and its people are confronting with the worst kind of terror.
He said KPK needs help to counter rising terror incidents and the Centre will give them every possible support to fight out the menace of terrorism.
President Asif Ali Zardari and prime minister, Shahbaz Sharif, have condemned killing of innocent civilians by the terrorists in Lower Kurram and vowed to take the terrorists and their facilitators head-on.
Both leaders directed to the concerned authorities to provide the best medical treatment to the injured.
