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- The attack happened Thursday when trucks carrying food, medicine and other relief supplies were heading to Kurram
- Five drivers were still missing and their trucks had been burned by the attackers, a local police official says
Peshawar: The death toll from an ambush on a Pakistan convoy bringing supplies to a region besieged by sectarian fighting rose to 10 on Friday, police said, while up to six drivers have been kidnapped.
The Thursday ambush targeted a convoy of 33 vehicles set to resupply local traders in the northwest Kurram region with rice, flour and cooking oil and two aid vehicles carrying essential medicine.
“The deceased include two security personnel, four drivers... and four civilians,” a local police official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
“There are reports that five to six drivers have been abducted by a local tribe,” he said.
Kurram has been wracked by Sunni-Shiite violence for decades, but around 140 people have been killed since a fresh bout of fighting broke out in November.
As feuding tribes have battled with machine guns and heavy weapons, the remote and mountainous region bordering Afghanistan has been largely cut off from the outside world.
Numerous ceasefires have been touted, most recently on January 1, but none have stopped the violence.