Youth shot dead

LAKKI MARWAT: Unidentified armed men shot dead a teenager in the Takhtikhel area of Lakki Marwat district, said police on Saturday.

Police said that the murder occurred in the limits of Shaheed Asmatullah Khan Khattak Police Station of Serai Naurang town.

Mir Sahib Jan, father of the deceased, told police in his preliminary report that his son Abdul Qadeer, 17, had left home on his motorcycle in the morning and did not return back till evening.

“Next day, his body was found dumped in a rainwater course near the village,” he claimed. He said that the unknown killer(s) murdered his son with a firearm and also took away his motorcycle, a mobile phone and an assault rifle with them.