(UPDATE) PARACHINAR, Pakistan: Five teachers were among eight people killed in rural Pakistan on Thursday as a long-simmering row between Sunni and Shiite Muslims erupted into deadly violence, police and officials said.

Two gunmen entered a school in the remote border town of Teri Mangal in Kurram district — less than a kilometer (mile) from the Afghan border — as teachers gathered exam papers students had completed earlier in the day.

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