‘Al Jazeera’ reports that armed men in northern Pakistan have shot dead at least 25 members of the Shia sect of Islam. Based on the officials’ information to Al Jazera, the victims were travelling on board three buses in the Naran Valley when they were forced to step off the vehicles and were shot dead.
The attack took place near Babusar Top, on the border between Mansehra and Gilgit districts on Thursday. "After checking [their] papers, [the attackers] opened fire," said Khalid Omarzai, the local administration chief in Mansehra. Shafiq Gul, a police official, said that the gunmen were masked, while Omarzai said that they were wearing military fatigues. Ali Sher, the deputy inspector-general of police in Gilgit, said the victims were travelling from Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, to Gilgit, a mostly Shia area.
On February 28, gunmen in military fatigues killed 18 Shias in a similar attack in Kohistan, on the same bus route. On April 3, a Sunni mob dragged nine Shias off buses and shot them dead in the town of Chilas, about 100km south of Gilgit.
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