DERA ISMAIL KHAN, April 30 Two persons including a local leader of the PPP were killed while two others got injuries in the ongoing spate of target-killing here on Thursday.

According to police, unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at local leader of PPP Abdul Aziz Shirani in Derban Kalan who died on the spot.

In Iqbal Town, bike-riders sprayed one Ghulam Sadiq with bullets who succumbed to his injuries.

Unidentified attackers in a car opened fire at a medical store in Cantonment police station area as a result two people Saifur Rehman and Ameer Mohammad received injuries. They were shifted to local hospital.

Meanwhile, police registered FIR against unidentified persons for grenade attack on a funeral procession on Wednesday, in which two persons were wounded.

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