In Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, gunmen dressed as paramilitary Gilgit Scouts killed nine foreign tourists and a Pakistani on Sunday night. The gunmen stormed into the climbers base camp, killing Chinese and Ukrainian climbers.

Government officials said five Ukrainians and a number of Chinese were killed. Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar told parliament that one Chinese survivor has been rescued. Nisar said that the attackers accessed the camp with the help of two guides whom they had kidnapped.

One guide was killed in the shoot-out. The climbers were staying at a first camp, around 4,200 feet from Nanga Parbat, one of the highest mountains in the world, in the Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan.

A spokesman for Pakistan’s main umbrella Taliban faction has claimed responsibility for killings. Its spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan telephoned AFP to claim responsibility on behalf of one of its factions, Junood ul-Hifa, to avenge the May killing of the Pakistani Taliban deputy leader in a US drone strike.