At least eight people, including seven teachers, have been killed in separate incidents of firing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district on Thursday, district headquarters hospital deputy medical superintendent Qaisar Abbas said, reports Dawn.
Abbas told Dawn that the first incident of firing took place at Shalozan Road, in which one person was killed.
Shortly after, seven teachers were killed in another firing incident at a school, which a Dawn correspondent present in the area said was at a distance of around six kilometres from Shalozan Road.
Police have not issued a statement on the matter yet.
In recent months, Pakistan has been hit by a wave of terrorism, mostly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, since the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ended its ceasefire with the government in November.
According to a report, January 2023 was the deadliest month since 2018, in which 134 people lost their lives — a 139 per cent spike — and 254 received injuries in at least 44 militant attacks across the country.
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