Funeral prayers were held for 42 Shiite Muslims who were ambushed and killed by gunmen a day earlier in Pakistan's restive northwest.
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Local residents walk in a market, which closed due to strike called by traders as a protest against a gunmen firing incident, in Parachinar, main town of Kurram district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. Mourners bury a body of a person killed when gunmen fired on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims Thursday, after his funeral prayer in Parachinar, main town of Kurram district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024.
The victims were traveling in a convoy of several vehicles from the northwestern city of Parachinar to Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, when the attack took place Thursday. Those killed included six women and 20 others were injured.Survivors said the assailants emerged from a vehicle and sprayed the buses and cars with bullets. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack and police have not identified a motive.
Coffins were draped in white cloth that bore red calligraphy. It read “Labbaik ya Hussein,” a Shiite expression in remembrance of the 7th-century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith.
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