(21 Nov 2024)
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Kurram, Pakistan – 21 November 2024
1. Various of ambulance arriving and entering local hospital in Kurram carrying wounded
2. Various of relatives standing in front of local hospital in Parachinar
3. Various of relatives around victim lying on hospital bed receiving treatment
4. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Ibne Ali Bangash, relative of victim:
“Today is one of the saddest incidents in the history of the Kurram area. In the presence of government protocol our convoy has been attacked and more than 40 people from our community have been martyred, including children and women. It’s a matter of shame for the government, and government is lazy. So far they did not care for the bodies of killed people, we demand from the government that strict action should be taken against the terrorists who did this."
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Islamabad, Pakistan – 21 November 2024
5. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi talking to media
6. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan’s Interior Minister:
“So far 38 people have been martyred in Kurram agency, they (government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa) definitely need help, they had requested for 15 platoons of FC (frontier constabulary). So we are in contact, and they are part of our country, they are our province, and we will provide help and assistance.”
7. Officials leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 38 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region’s deadliest such attacks in recent years, police said.
The attack happened in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where sectarian clashes between majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites have killed dozens of people in recent months.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the latest attack. It came a week after authorities reopened a key highway in the region that had been closed for weeks following deadly clashes.
Local police official Azmat Ali said several vehicles were traveling in a convoy from the city of Parachinar to Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, when gunmen opened fire. He said at least 10 passengers were in critical condition at a hospital.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said at least 38 people were killed in the “terrorist attack." Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the attack, and Sharif said those behind the killing of innocent civilians will not go unpunished.
Shiite Muslims make up about 15% of the 240 million population of Sunni-majority Pakistan, which has a history of sectarian animosity between the communities.
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