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Pakistan: Seven charity workers shot dead | |
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Seven charity workers, six of them women, have been shot dead in north-west Pakistan, police say. | |
The women, some of them teachers, were attacked near a health and education community centre. A male colleague died with them. All were Pakistani citizens. | |
Their vehicle came under gunfire near the centre run by Pakistani charity Ujala, or Light. | |
The incident happened in the Swabi district close to a road connecting Peshawar to the eastern city of Lahore. | The incident happened in the Swabi district close to a road connecting Peshawar to the eastern city of Lahore. |
No-one at the charity, which works in the education sector, was immediately available for comment. | |
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack although militants in the conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province oppose female education and have attacked female students and their schools. | |
Last month, in a series of attacks, gunmen killed nine health workers taking part in a national polio vaccination drive. |