Ippi shooting | |
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Part of the insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
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Location | Ippi, North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
Date | 22 February 2021 9:30am (04:30 GMT) |
Target | Aid workers |
Attack type | Mass shooting |
Weapons | Guns |
Deaths | 4 |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrator | Unknown |
The Ippi shooting was a mass shooting on 22 February 2021 in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. [1]
On 22 February 2021, four female aid workers were inside a car when two gunmen on a motorcycle shot them dead in Ippi village, North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan. [2] [3] Four women were killed, and the driver was injured in the attack. [4] [5]
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