Local authorities in Pakistan reported that militants ambushed a Pakistani caravan on Saturday, injuring several officials despite a peace that had been announced three days prior.
Around 200 people have been killed since a new episode of fighting broke out in the Kurram area of north Pakistan in November, despite decades of Sunni-Shiite crime.
The distant, mountainous region bordering Afghanistan has been mostly cut off from the outside world as feuding nations have engaged in combat with machine guns and heavy weapons.
After a ceasefire was declared on January 1, the fleet was attacked as it was traveling to collect the food and medicine delivered by street since November, according to officials.
Local authorities official Motasim Billah reported to AFP that Kurram’s deputy director was hurt “along with two additional administration officials, two officers, and two Frontier Corps men.”
He said the attack took place around 11.00 am ( 0600 GMT ).
The lieutenant director” came under an attack by unexplained malcontents,” but his” situation is out of threat,” according to Muhammad Ali Saif, the spokesman of northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
” The caravan has been temporarily halted due to security concerns”, he added in a speech.
Since the most recent fighting has broken out, many settlements have been proclaimed by the provincial government, only to be broken by fresh clashes hours later.
According to Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, the assault was” a crime” meant to thwart the peace that was reached on New Year’s Day following a committee of tribal leaders from both sides.
” Naughty parts carried out the fire to hurt the peace deal”, he said in a statement.
Pakistan is a Sunni-majority state but Shia make up between 10 and 15 percent of the population.
In Kurram, the communities live side by side, but area problems frequently re-enter before igniting along sectarian split.
This latest round of crime started in November when 40 people were killed when two independent Shiite Muslim convoys were ambushed while on police escort.
