Thousands of mourners on Friday attended the mass funeral of seven Shia teachers who were shot and killed at a school in northwestern Pakistan, drawing nationwide condemnation, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mourners also rallied against Thursday\u2019s killings. The teachers were shot by unidentified assailants who stormed a school in Kurram, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The victims were members of Pakistan\u2019s Shia community, which extremist militants groups frequently target.Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant violence since the Pakistani Taliban \u2014 who are known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP \u2014 ended a ceasefire with the government last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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