18 killed in Pakistan bus ambush

The bus was carrying passengers from Rawalpindi to the northern town of Gilgit on Tuesday when it came under attack in a mountainous region.

“Armed men hiding on both sides of the road attacked the bus,” local police chief Mohammad Ilyas said.

“Initial reports said 18 people have died and eight wounded,” he added.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but a Pakistani security official said that there may be a sectarian motive.

According to a senior police officer that requested anonymity, “all the people on board [the bus] were Shia.” He expressed suspicion that a local group of armed men from a Wahhabi sect may be responsible for the brutal mass killing.

Wahhabism is a vigorously radicalized interpretation of Islam openly sponsored and propagated by the US-backed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which considers killing of opponents of the ideology, especially the Shias but including Sunnis, as legitimate.

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