14 people have been killed in separate attacks across Pakistan, police and local media reported.Two incidents taking place in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Kurram district on Thursday, gunmen killed seven people, including five teachers.
The attack appeared to be in retaliation for another attack shortly before in which another teacher was shot dead, official said.The shooting occurred at a high school in the remote town of Parachinar, nestled on the border with neighbouring Afghanistan.Students at the school were taking annual exams when the shooting took place.
“The attack demonstrates how demanding and complex it is to work in a country where the security situation is changing all the time,” he added.The seven were killed on Saturday in Imehejek in Eastern Equatoria state after attending a peace conference and being offered a ride in NCA cars.Three NCA employees, also from South Sudan, escaped unharmed, NCA said.
Footage screened showed dozens of people gathered in the courtyard of a local government hospital as paramedics were shifting the bodies from ambulances to the emergency section of the facility.Dubbing the attack a result of an old land dispute, Mohammad Azam Khan, the acting chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said the culprits behind this “heinous act will not be spared.”The motive behind the killings, however, remained unclear, according to local police who said they were gathering more information and investigating the incident.Earlier in the day, a shootout with militants elsewhere in the region killed at least six Pakistani soldiers.
