GUWAHATI, Nov 24: More than 300 families have been forced to leave their homes following violent clashes between Shia and Sunni Muslims in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the north of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan.
Sectarian violence has killed more than 150 people in the past couple of months with 32 reported dead in fresh clashes on Saturday.
“Approximately 300 families have relocated to Hangu and Peshawar since this morning in search of safety,” a senior official said, adding that more families were preparing to leave the province’s Kurram district, news agency AFP reported.
Saturday’s clashes came two days after gunmen opened fire on two separate convoys of Shia Muslims killing 43 people and injuring 11 others critically.
