KURRAM -UNS: At least eight people, including five teachers, were killed in separate incidents of firing in the Parachinar area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district on Thursday, police said.
Upper Kurram District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Imran told Dawn.com that the first shooting incident took place on a road near the Shalozan area and the second at Teri Mengal School — which a Dawn.com correspondent present in the area said was at a distance of around six kilometres from the site of the first incident.
Later, he said while speaking to the media that one person, a teacher, was killed in the first incident and seven in the school shooting. He added that those killed at the school included four teachers and three drivers.
Separately, Rescue 1122 official Syed Ghayyur Hussain told Dawn.com that bodies of the school shooting victims were taken to district headquarters hospital, Parachinar.
DPO Imran told the media that measures were being taken and negotiations being carried out with tribal leaders to bring the situation back to normalcy after the attacks.
