Information About Incident 39481-75555-182981 in Kotli Pakistan

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Masked gunmen are reported to have killed seven Pakistani preachers at a mosque in Somalia on August 12, according to Daily Times.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Somalia
• Matched District: Kotli
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: Masked gunmen
• Subject: seven Pakistani preachers

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

Masked gunmen are reported to have killed seven Pakistani preachers at a mosque in Somalia on August 12, according to Daily Times. Six gunmen with assault rifles and pistols stormed the Tawfiq Mosque in Galkayo and forced six Pakistani preachers and a Somali man outside, said eyewitness Ismail Hasan. The gunmen then opened fire, he said. Residents said the attack took place after early morning prayers at the mosque in Galkayo town and targeted a group of 25 mostly Pakistanis who had arrived in the semi-autonomous northern region on August 11. "Six Pakistanis died on the spot while another Pakistani died in hospital. These men are preachers from Karachi, Pakistan," Galkayo District Commissioner Hussein Abdullahi told Reuters. Pakistan's acting ambassador in neighbouring Kenya, Manzoor Chaudhry, confirmed that Pakistani nationals had been killed in Galkayo. The exact death toll, however, was unclear because there have been conflicting figures from different sources, he said.

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