Pakistan: gunmen on motorcycles kill four female aid workers

Car carrying women, in North Waziristan to train people to open their own businesses, was ambushed by suspected militants

Gunmen on motorcycles ambushed a vehicle carrying instructors from a private vocational school in north-west Pakistan on Monday, killing four women and wounding the driver before fleeing.

The attack took place in the village of Ippi near Mir Ali, a town in the North Waziristan district in a former tribal region bordering Afghanistan, said Shafi Ullah Khan Gandapur, a district police chief.