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14 February – A roadside bomb targeted a vehicle carrying coal miners in Harnai, Balochistan, killing 11 and injuring five. [9] 17 February – A convoy of aid trucks in Kurram District was ambushed, killing a driver and a security official, and injuring 15 others. [10]
Four gunmen emerged from a vehicle and opened fire on a convoy of over 200 vehicles containing Shia Muslims traveling from Parachinar to Peshawar along a remote highway. The gunmen initially targeted police escort vehicles, who were assigned to protect the convoy due to prior instances of sectarian violence on roadways, before firing on the passengers. [7]
An injured person, on the right, receives treatment at a hospital in Parachinar, in the Kurram district of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Thursday, 21 November 2024 (AP)
Sectarian violence in Pakistan refers to violence directed against people and places in Pakistan motivated by antagonism toward the target's religious sect. As many as 4,000 Shia (a Muslim minority group) are estimated to have been killed in sectarian attacks in Pakistan between 1987 and 2007, [23] and thousands more Shia have been killed by Salafi extremists from 2008 to 2014, according to ...
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 ...
Clashes broke out in Parachinar after armed gunmen opened fire inside a Sunni mosque on 16 November, killing at least 10 people. [31] [32] The attack triggered a renewed conflict between Sunni and Shia fighters in Kurram, with 30 people being killed and over 100 being injured by the end of 17 November. [31]
Parachinar (Pashto: پاړه چنار; Urdu: پاڑہ چنار) is a city and the capital of the Kurram District in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. [ 2 ] Parachinar is situated on the west of Peshawar , that juts into the Paktia , Logar and Nangarhar provinces of Afghanistan .
Russian Emergencies Ministry firefighters, police officers and investigators work at the site of an explosion at the Aliye Parusa residential complex in Moscow, Russia on February 3, 2025.