8 killed in Pakistan sectarian attack

By Agence France-Presse

May 06, 2023 12:16 am

(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.

Ambulances carry victims' coffins of those who were killed in the sectarian violence inside a school, in Parachinar on May 4, 2023. - Five teachers and two labourers were gunned down on May 4 at a school in northwest Pakistan, in an attack linked to Sunni-Shiite sectarian tensions, police and government officials said. Photo by Ali AFZAL / AFP

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