LAHORE: Gunmen opened fire on a school van in Pakistan today, killing two girls and wounding six others, including the driver who was the target of the attack, police said.
The children were on their way to school when the attack happened around 8am in a sparsely populated part of Attock city in the country’s Punjab province.
“Two children were killed and five children were injured when gunmen indiscriminately opened fire on a school van,” local police spokesman Waseem Babar told AFP.
The gunmen, who fled the scene, were embroiled in court cases with the family of the driver, according to Babar.
The girls killed were aged 10 or 11, he said.
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif said in a statement that such an attack on “innocent children is (a) very cruel and brutal act”.