Pakistan Tribal Feuds Claim at Least 12 Lives
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QUETTA, Pakistan — Gunfights between rival tribes Thursday killed at least 12 people in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, government officials said.
Six of the 12, including a government official and his son, were killed in a gunfight between Tarin and Nasar tribes near the northern Baluchistan town of Ziarat, the officials said in the provincial capital Quetta. In Baluchistan’s tribal society, feuds are often settled violently.
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