Three minor boys were injured on Saturday when a mortar shell fired by unidentified militants landed on a house in Akka Khel, Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, followed by firing.
An official of the political administration told The Express Tribune that militants fired the mortar at the house of Naseeb Gul in Sanzal Khel and then began firing at it around 11am.
According to the official, when the attack stopped, locals rushed to the house and pulled out two brothers from the debris. The boys identified as five-year-old Samiullah and seven-year-old Muhammad Hayat were rushed to a hospital in Peshawar along with six-year-old Azmatullah who had been hit by a bullet while he was standing outside his house in the neighbourhood.
Body found
A bullet-riddled body was found from a roadside in Akka Khel on Saturday afternoon. The political administration official said a pedestrian passing through Merikhel Lalma spotted the body and informed khasadars.
They arrived at the site and shifted the deceased to the political administration’s office for identification, however, no one had arrived to claim the body till this report was filed.
The official speculated the deceased had been picked by militants for failing to pay extortion money and then killed. He added a case has been filed and further investigation is under way.
Meanwhile, the headmaster of privately-run Gul High School in Shalobar, Bara who had reportedly been kidnapped by the banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) on September 21 has returned home.
According to sources in the area, the LI released Gulab Din on Saturday but the conditions for his release were not known.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 28th, 2014.
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