Attock-bound bus attacked, 7 shot dead

KARACHI: Gunmen yesterday shot dead seven passengers on a bus in southern Pakistan and wounded three others in an attempted robbery, police said.
The attack took place on the highway near the town of Qazi Ahmad, nearly 320 km northeast of Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city.
“At least seven people were killed and three others were wounded in the bus firing,” police official Sanaullah Abbasi told AFP. He said the bus was going from Karachi to Attock town in Punjab province.
Two men boarded the bus just before Qazi Ahmad and later asked the driver to stop. Two accomplices were waiting on motorbikes. They opened fire, then fled.
“We are investigating the incident and initially it appears to be a case of failed robbery,” he said.
Local police official Hashim Leghari also confirmed the shootings.
Pakistan suffers from a Taleban insurgency in its northwest, a separatist insurgency in the southwest and sectarian violence.
FROM: AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE