18 people killed, 30 injured in Kurram district clashes

KABUL (Pajhwok): Eighteen people have been killed and another 30 injured in fresh clashes in the Kurram district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a media report said on Saturday.

The violence followed Thursday’s deadly attack, when a convoy of around 200 vehicles came under heavy gunfire in Kurram’s densely populated Bagan town, killing at least 43 people and injuring 16 others, a report in Dawn said.

The convoy was carrying passengers between Peshawar and Parachi­nar city, which is in Kurram, a district near the Afghanistan border with a history of sectarian violence and land disputes.

Reports showed that most of the dead persons hailed from Parachinar and were belonged to the Shai sect.

BBC reported that after the funeral of the victims people equipped with armed had resorted to violence, they set on fire some houses and petrol pump stations.

Kurram district police said that a heavy a firefight took place between Torai tribe forces and local tribes in Bagan Bazaar. Elsewhere there was firefight reported between Sunni and Shia tribes in Gonj Alizai, Sadai and Bashikhel areas.

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