Police say militants kill 4 female instructors in NW Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Suspected militants on motorcycles ambushed a vehicle carrying instructors from a private vocational school in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing four women and wounding the driver before fleeing, police said. The attack took place in Epi in Mir Ali, a town in North Waziristan district in a former tribal region bordering Afghanistan, said Shafi Ullah Khan Gandapur, a district police chief. The women had planned to train 140 residents for skilled occupations that would allow them to open businesses.