LAKKI MARWAT: A senior leader of Pakistan People’s Party was gunned down by unknown armed men in Serai Gambila town of Lakki Marwat district on Friday.

Police said unknown armed men ambushed Mashaal Khan, 55, (PPP former member provincial council), near Kaway Koroona area when he was going to Serai Gambila on a motorcycle to offer Friday prayers.

They said the PPP leader received critical bullet injuries and died instantly. “The assailants escaped the crime scene after he murder,” they said.

ulfiqar Ahmad, son of the deceased, told Serai Gambila police that after offering Jumma prayers in the town mosque, he was on way back to his village on a motorcycle when he noticed a crowd along the roadside.

“When I went close, I saw the body of my father lying there,” he claimed, adding the motorcycle of his father was also beside the body. He said that unknown armed men had killed his father with a firearm.

He said that his family had no enmity with anyone, and that his father was a staunch PPP activist.

Police said the body was handed over to relatives after completing medico-legal formalities.

Separately, a young man and his sister were killed and another sister was injured when a bus hit a rickshaw on the Indus Highway in Serai Naurang town of Lakki on Friday.

Police said Khalid Khan, 24, his sisters Rozeena, 31, and Horain, 19, who were travelling in the three-wheeler, were seriously injured in the accident.

They said that the victims were taken to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, from where Khalid and Rozeena were referred to a hospital in Bannu where they died during treatment.

Published in Dawn, November 23rd, 2024

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