Over 100 villages in upper and lower Kurram, including the district headquarters of Parachinar, have been under siege for over three and a half months as reported by Geo News.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has hinted that the government can announce bounties on the heads of people involved in the firing incident in lower Kurram area, Ary News reported.
The latest fatalities occurred in retaliation attacks that followed a deadly ambush on Thursday, in which around 40 passengers travelling in a convoy were killed in the Mandori Charkhel area of Lower Kurram district.
Protest demonstrations broke out across different areas of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan after Friday prayers, with thousands of people taking to the streets to denounce the attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Lower Kurram district, which resulted in the deaths of at least 42 people and left
At least 38 people were killed and 11 others were injured in a gun attack on passenger vans in the Ochat area of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's (KP) Lower Kurram district on Thursday.