At least 38 killed as gunmen open fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the latest attack. It came a week after authorities reopened a key highway in the region

Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 38 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region’s deadliest such attacks in recent years, police said.

The attack happened in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where sectarian clashes between majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites have killed dozens of people in recent months.