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  • Jan 31st, 2018
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A roadside bomb on Tuesday killed eight people including three women and a child in northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, in the latest attack apparently targeting Shias. The improvised explosive device exploded in the Shia-dominated Maqbal area of Kurram tribal district as a van carrying nine people drove by.

Eight passengers including three women and a seven-year-old boy were killed, senior local government official Basir Khan Wazir told AFP. He said officials were struggling to identify the mutilated victims but initial evidence suggested all the passengers were Shias. A local intelligence official confirmed the incident and casualties. Upper Kurram has been the scene of several bomb attacks targeting Shiite Muslims in the past. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2018


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