Monday, March 28, 2011

Eight people die in vehicle assault on Pakistan

.- At least eight people were killed and twenty were abducted by gunmen assault of passenger vehicles in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, the TV channel "Geo." Unknown men opened fire on a convoy of civilian vehicles Bugano Area, located in the Kurram tribal region, according to the chain, which did not identify its sources.

Four others were wounded in the attack and taken to hospital. Security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation. The vehicles were heading towards Parachinar, the head of this troubled river with heavy Taliban influence and sectarian tension in the presence of Shia sect of Islam is a minority in Pakistan.

The Pakistani Army is currently focusing his energies on a low-level operation that has lasted months in another tribal region, Orakzai, but the U.S. is trying to push to launch an offensive in neighboring North Waziristan, stronghold of Jihadi factions. Since the year began, the mountainous Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders the tribal areas and major transit areas for the insurgents, has suffered a wave of violence as attacks against security forces or other targets anti-Taliban militias .

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