Gunmen attack school van in Pakistan’s Punjab, killing two children

Police believe attacker motivated by personal ‘enmity’, but investigators also probing possibility of ‘terrorism’.

Gunmen opened fire on a school bus in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, killing two children, police said.

Five children were wounded in the attack which took place in a village in the district of Attock on Thursday morning as the children were travelling to school.

Police said the assailants appeared to be targeting the driver, who was also wounded.

Local officials and media reports said that the children were as young as five.

“Our initial investigations indicate that the driver had an enmity with someone,” Mohammad Shakil, a local police official, told The Associated Press news agency.