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The 2013 Parachinar bombing was a bombing incident that occurred in Parachinar, Pakistan on 26 July 2013. At least 57 people were killed and more than 100 injured after two bombs exploded on a market in Parachinar a capital city in Kurram Valley and the largest city of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in northern Pakistan on Friday the official said.
Protesters in Parachinar set ablaze two police checkpoints. [10] Internet was shut down, mobile services were suspended, schools were closed and a severe medicine and food shortage occurred after the attack. [11] Reports emerged of intense gunfire in Lower Kurram Agency between the Alizai and Bagan tribes. [9] [12]
The deadliest attack came later in the day, when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a snooker hall at about 8:50 pm, [5] followed about ten minutes later by a car bombing outside the building after police and media personnel had arrived at the scene. [2] [4] 130 people were killed in the two bombings, with at least 270 more injured.
The attacks followed earlier blasts that had occurred in Quetta and Parachinar in 2017: Quetta on 13 February [7] and 21 April; and Parachinar on 21 January and 31 March. [8] In response to these and other attacks , the Pakistani military had launched Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad in February which aimed to eliminate the "residual/latent threat of ...
On 21 January 2017, a bomb was detonated at a vegetable market in Parachinar, in the Kurram Valley of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. At least 25 people were killed and 87 injured by the explosion. [5] [6] Parachinar is the administrative headquarters of the Kurram Agency near the Afghan border. [7]
In the Parachinar bombing of 16 February 2008, a suicide bomber in Parachinar, Pakistan killed 70 people and injured 110 attending a political rally for the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party. [2] The attack occurred on the eve of the 2008 Pakistani general election to be held on 18 February when an explosives-laden car was rammed into the ...
The conflict began on May 4, 2023, when a school shooting took place at a high school in Tari Mangal, killing seven people, including five teachers and two labors, [3] According to Deputy Commissioner Saiful Islam, the teacher who died in the initial attack was a Sunni Muslim, while those targeted in the subsequent shooting at the school were ...
On 4 May 2023, a school shooting took place at a high school in Parachinar, Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing seven people and wounding three police officers. Earlier in the day, a teacher from the same school was shot dead in a separate attack.