KURRAM: Four people including two security personnel and a woman were killed, while three others sustained wounded in firing on a passenger coach and a vehicle near Sadda Bazaar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district on Sunday, police said.
District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Imran confirmed the incident, saying the vehicles were targeted by gunmen with automated weapons. The district police officer informed the incident happened near Sadda Bazaar where the assailants opened indiscriminate fire at a passenger coach and a car, killing two security personnel, a driver and a woman.
He added that both the vehicles were travelling from Parachinar to Peshawar.
The DPO claimed that efforts were underway to arrest the culprits behind the attack and that security in the area had been increased.
Dr Qaiser Abbas, the deputy medical superintendent of Parachinar district headquarters hospital, also confirmed the incident and said the wounded were currently receiving treatment at the hospital.
Local tribes of Turi Bangash have called for an emergency jirga (meeting) to decide on a plan of action about the attacks.
In a similar incident last week on December 31, a man was injured in yet another terrorist attack on a passenger coach in the Hangu district of KP. However, the terrorists were forced to flee when a passenger opened fire on them with his handgun.
The police said that terrorists had ambushed a Parachinar-bound coach and fired at its tyres, forcing it to stop.
Last month, nine people were killed and 25 injured in a “terrorist” attack on a passenger bus in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Chilas.
