Five shot dead in Lakki Marwat


Staff Reporter LAKKI MARWAT: Five persons including three passers-by were killed near Mohalla Baghban in Lakki City on Wednesday, police said. They said that Said Alam and Awal Khan, residents of Tajori, were heading to their homes after they had been released from the Sub-Jail Lakki when their rivals opened fire on them. As a result, both of them and a passer-by identified as Khadim were killed on the spot while two passers-by Jehangir and Muhammad Gul sustained critical injuries. After the incident, the police rushed to the scene and shifted the dead and injured to the City Hospital where the injured succumbed to their injuries. The police closed the exit points to arrest the culprits but no arrest was made till the filing of this report. The motive behind the incident was stated to be an old enmity. The relatives of the passers-by staged a protest inside the hospital premises over the unavailability of the doctor.