Gunmen kill seven in coach attack
PESHAWAR: Seven people were killed on Saturday after gunmen fired on a coach carrying passengers in a northwestern tribal district, officials said.
The attack took place near Boshehra town in Kurram tribal district where the military last week launched an offensive and which is often troubled by sectarian violence.
"Seven people, four men and three women were killed in the attack, all of them were Sunni," Sher Bahadar, a local administrative official told AFP by telephone.
A local intelligence official said it was a sectarian incident in an area with a history of clashes between majority Sunni and minority Shia.
"Three people were also wounded in the attack. The attackers managed to flee the scene," Bahadar said.
The victims were close relatives, he added.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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