Pakistan's police say gunmen have opened fire on passenger vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in restive northwest Pakistan, killing at least eight people and wounding others

A senior Pakistani police officer says fighting between armed sectarian groups in the country's restive northwest has killed at least 33 people.

Gunmen ambushed a convoy of passenger vehicles traveling in remote northern Pakistan, killing dozens of people, authorities said. The gunmen had been hiding in the mountains of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's Kurram district and fired on the convoy of some 200 passenger vehicles,

At least 38 people - including women and children - have been killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on a convoy of 200 passenger vehicles traveling through a remote area of Pakistan. The vehicles were attacked as they travelled through the tribal district of Kurram in Pakistan,

At least 38 people, most of them Shiite Muslims, were killed in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday as gunmen ambushed convoys of vehicles that had been under the protection of security forces. The attack was one of the deadliest in months of sectarian violence in the Kurram region, a scenic mountainous district bordering Afghanistan.

Pakistani police say gunmen have opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in the country's restive northwest, killing at least 38 people and wounding 20 others.

A woman and a child were among 38 people killed after gunmen opened fire on 200 passenger vehicles travelling through a remote area of Pakistan.

Angry crowds gathered in the remote Pakistani mountain town of Parachinar on Friday, incensed by an attack on an escorted convoy of buses in which 40 Shi'ite Muslims died after being sprayed with automatic fire in an ambush.