Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
on Thursday when unidentified gunnies opened fire on their vehicle, government sources told DawnNews.
According to the sources, the passenger vehicle was traveling from the Alizai area to Parachinar when the armed assailants opened fire, killing four people on the spot and severely wounding four others.
Moreover, three of the four maimed people later died at at the Agency Headquarter Hospital while the fourth was said to be at death's door.
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising...
local rustics were reported to have engaged the fleeing attackers in a gun-battle.
Six out of the seven people who bit the dust in the incident belonged to the same family.