6 opposition workers killed in Pakistan
Afp, Islamabad
Unidentified gunmen ambushed a van carrying activists from the main opposition Pakistan People's Party yesterday, killing six of them and wounding two others, police and a party official said. The attack occurred in the town of Attock, 120km west of the capital Islamabad, police officer Najab Khan told AFP. "We do not know what the motive is behind the attack. We are investigating," he said. PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the attack was meant to frighten party workers in a district where Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said he will contest general elections that are due late this year or in early 2008. "It seems to us that now the elections are near, a message has been sent to the PPP supporters to desist from supporting the party," Babar told AFP. "We demand the arrest of the culprits. One of the men murdered in the attack was a local office-bearer (a party leader at village level)," he said, adding the dead included three brothers.
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