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Summary The bus was mostly carrying people from the Toori tribe.
Gunmen attacked a bus carrying mostly Shias, killing eight and injuring five of them on Friday in Kurram Agency. The gunmen who carried out the ambush in the Bagan area of the Kurram Agency also kidnapped 18 people from the bus.The attack was the latest blow to the peace deal, which was meant to end a four-year conflict that cost hundreds of lives, but has failed to extinguish violence in the area. The bus was attacked when it was travelling on the main road that runs through Kurram Agency and connects Parachinar with Peshawar.Violence had kept the road closed until the peace deal was struck in February. The bus was mostly carrying people from the Toori tribe, one of the main Shia tribes that struck the peace deal. A similar attack killed nine people in mid-March who were travelling on the road from Parachinar, a Shia-dominated town.
