By Press Trust of India: Eight school lecturers had been killed on Thursday in two separate incidents of centered capturing in Pakistan’s restive northwest tribal district, bordering Afghanistan, police talked about.
In the first incident, some unknown gunmen stormed the workers room of Teri Mengal High School throughout the Upper Kurram tribal district throughout the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and shot lifeless seven lecturers on examination obligation, in accordance with police.
The attackers fled after the assault. In a separate incident, a school teacher was killed when his car was ambushed by unknown gunmen on Shalozan Road throughout the Parachinar headquarters of the equivalent district.
No group or specific particular person claimed accountability for the assaults.
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However, the incidents come merely two days after Pakistani security forces killed Abdul Jabar Shah, a notorious Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander and two others and made plenty of key arrests throughout the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
After the brutal firing incident, an emergency has been declared in the entire nicely being facilities of the district.
The Kohat Board examination for ninth and tenth grades has moreover been postponed after the killings.
The police have launched an infinite hunt to arrest the killers.
President Arif Alvi condemned the incident and expressed hope that the culprits would shortly be arrested and punished in accordance with regulation.
Separately, as a minimum six troopers had been killed, and three terrorists eradicated all through a battle that occurred between security forces and the terrorists in northwest Pakistan on Thursday.
The confrontation between the army and the terrorists occurred throughout the Dirdoni area of the North Waziristan tribal district, the army’s media wing ISPR talked about.
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Two terrorists had been moreover injured throughout the retaliatory fire.
The operation in opposition to terrorists would proceed till the whole elimination of the terrorists, the ISPR talked about.
The outlawed TTP has elevated the assaults in present months and has apparently become stronger as a result of the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.
The militant group, prepare as an umbrella group of plenty of militant outfits in 2007, known as off a ceasefire with the federal authorities and ordered its militants to stage terrorist assaults country-wide.
