MINGORA: Unidentified armed men shot dead a village defence committee chief and a cop in the Swat’s Kabal tehsil, official sources said on Monday.
They said that unknown gunmen sprayed Mohammad Khan, the chairman of the village defence committee, also known as the peace body, with bullets in broad daylight in Bara Bandai village in Kabal tehsil. A cop identified as Bakht Baidar was also killed in the firing while another policeman Bilal Khan sustained injuries.
The bodies and the injured were shifted to the Saidu Sharif Central Hospital. The police and security forces clamped curfew in the area and launched a door-to-door search operation to hunt down the attackers. Around 40 suspects were arrested during the search.Kabal was one of the strongholds of the Swati Taliban before the military operation against them in 2009.
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