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Pakistani city KARACHI
Police and local media claimed that at least seven teachers were murdered on Thursday when armed individuals opened fire inside a school in northwest Pakistan.
A government high school in the rural village of Parachinar, which is tucked along the border with Afghanistan, was the scene of the shooting, according to local station Dunya News.
At the time of the incident, students at the school were sitting for yearly examinations.
The incident’s motive is being looked into, the police stated, adding that it possibly have a terrorism component.
The sole Shia-majority town in the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Parachinar, has frequently been the target of terrorist assaults.
In Pakistan, shootings at schools are uncommon. In a gun-and-bomb attack at an army academy in the northwest, more than 140 people—mostly students—were murdered.
