At least five people, including a woman, were killed and eight others injured in a gun attack carried out on passenger vans in the lower Kurram area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The deaths were confirmed by Tehsil Head Quarters (THQ) Hospital Alizai official, Dr Ghayuur Hussain.
Dawn.com’s correspondent at the scene said that the death toll was likely to increase.
The incident comes amid a sharp uptick in the number of terrorist attacks in Balochistan and KP.
Attacks escalated after the TTP broke a fragile ceasefire agreement with the government in 2022 and vowed to target security forces.
Last month, two terrorists were killed during an IBO in KP’s North Waziristan district.
Twelve security personnel were martyred after a checkpost was targeted in the Mali Khel area of KP’s Bannu, the military’s media affairs wing said yesterday.
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