Two persons were killed and another injured during a firing incident in Khalabat Township here on Sunday.
Police quoted Zakir Khan as saying that he was returning home from a relative’s house when Mir Afzal, Nazakat and Javed opened fire at him. As a result, Khan and two passersby were shot.
They were taken to Women and Children Hospital, where the passersby Syed Ghulam Rasool and Naveed were pronounced dead while Zakir was referred to Ayub Medical Complex in Abbottabad.
Khan said his family has an old enmity with Mir Afzal, who is on the run from police and is wanted in five murder cases.
Meanwhile, armed men deprived a man of cash and valuables in Ghazi Tehsil. Police quoted Misry Khan, a sub-divisional clerk of Peshawar Electric Supply Corporation, as saying that five armed men entered his house and held the inmates at gunpoint. They made away with cash and jewellery worth Rs800,000, two licensed pistols, Rs60,000 in cash, five mobile phones, cloths and electronic items.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 20th, 2012.
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