Pakistan: In another tragic incident, gunmen in Pakistan opened fire on passenger vehicles on Thursday, killing at least 38 persons and wounding more than 30. The incident happened in a tribal area in northwestern Pakistan, chief secretary of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, said.

Victims reportedly included women and children, and the death toll is likely to rise further from the firing. In the Kurram tribal district, which witnessed the catastrophic incident, there had been tensions for decades between armed Shia and Sunni Muslims over a land dispute in the tribal area that borders Afghanistan.

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Earlier this month, an explosion in Quetta Railway Station in Pakistan’s Balochistan had killed more than 24 people. According to local residents, the armed men fired at two convoys of passenger vehicles, one carrying passengers from Peshawar to Parachinar and another from Parachinar to Peshawar. However, no group has claimed responsibility for the incident.

In an X post, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari strongly condemned the targeting of the passenger vehicles, noting that attacking innocent passengers is a “cowardly and inhumane act.”

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