No less than 11 individuals were killed and eight were harmed in shooting occurrences in Kunj Alizai area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram region, emergency clinic and neighborhood authorities said on Saturday.
Dawn.com was informed by Kurram Deputy Commissioner (DC) Javidullah Mehsud of the death toll.
DC Mehsud stated, “There was shooting in the Kunj Alizai mountains near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan and on the roads there.”
Mir Hassan, clinical director of the Region Central command Clinic, let Dawn.com know that a sum of nine harmed individuals were brought to the emergency clinic, out of which one capitulated to their wounds while treatment of the rest was in progress.
He went on to say that three of the wounded were in “critical” condition.
DC Mehsud stated that measures were being taken to restore law and order in the area and make the entry and exit routes to Kurram safer.
The most recent disturbance, according to former MNA Pir Haider Ali Shah, was “unfortunate as jirga members were already present there for a peace agreement between the tribes.”
Last month, no less than 46 individuals were killed and 91 were harmed in days-long brutality that had ejected over a land debate. 49 people had been killed in clashes in July before this one.
The district administration had hired a local jirga in September to help two opposing tribes negotiate. A land commission has also been established by the KP government to settle land disputes.
