ISLAMABAD: Shiites staging a procession near Pakistan's capital Friday killed seven Sunnis from a seminary for insulting them as they passed, officials said.

Thirty-two other people were wounded in the clash in the city of Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad, hospital official Mohammad Qasim said. Thirteen of the injured had gunshot wounds, Qasim said.

The Shiites dragged the Sunnis out of the seminary after hearing the insults and killed them, police officer Afzal Hussain said. They also set dozens of shops outside the seminary on fire, he said.

Police tried to stop the clash, but officers were wounded as the two sides threw stones at each other, Hussain said. An army unit based in Rawalpindi eventually reached the scene and took control.