Two young students were killed and five others wounded in a coward gun attack on a school van in Attock on Thursday morning. In the tragic incident, unidentified gunmen opened fire on the school van in the Dheri Kot area of Attock. Due to indiscriminate firing from the shooters, two children died on the spot, while five children and the driver of the school van were badly injured. The attackers fled the scene after the shooting. Rescue teams rushed to the spot and shifted the injured children and van driver to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital Attock. Meanwhile, the local police also reached the crime scene and shifted the dead bodies of the children to the hospital after collecting evidence. The police so far failed to ascertain the motive behind the gun attack.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan