Five killed in Lakki blood feud Man shot dead in DI Khan

LAKKI MARWAT: Five people were killed and two others including a passer-by seriously injured over a blood feud near Bakhmal Ahmadzai area on Monday.
The police said that the incident took place on Malang Adda-Tajori road connecting settled Tajori town with the Frontier Region.
They said the victims were going to Tajori from Serai Gambila in a motorcar when the incident happened.
The armed rivals ambushed the car when it reached near Bakhmal Ahmadzai village in the limits of Tajori Police Station, killing five persons onboard instantly, they said. The deceased included Haji Umar Daraz, Bahadar Zaman, Shamroz, Sher Khan and his brother Basit.
They said that Umar Khan, one of relatives of the deceased, and a passer-by sustained serious bullet wounds.
The attackers escaped on their motorbikes. The bodies and injured people were shifted to a hospital in Tajori town wherefrom the wounded men were referred to Bannu. The bodies were later handed over to relatives for burial after fulfilling medico-legal formalities. The police said the families of the deceased and accused persons had a blood feud.  
Separately, three villagers were seriously wounded in a firing near Nawerkhel on the outskirts of Lakki city.
The police said that the firing incident took place in the precinct of Lakki Marwat Police Station.
They said that three villagers including Rizwan, Jehanzeb and Hazrat Bilal were attacked by their rivals when they were going to Esakhel village from Nawerkhel on a motorcycle.
As soon as the villagers reached the bridge on Nawerkhel road, the attackers ambushed them, they maintained, adding that the villagers sustained serious bullet injuries in gun attack and were shifted to government city hospital by local residents. The police said that one of the wounded men Rizwan nominated Saqib, Muhammad Ali and Adnan in the first information report.
They added that the families of wounded villagers and attackers had a blood feud, saying that the shooters escaped after the incident.
Our correspondent in DI Khan adds:  Unidentified persons shot dead a man here on Monday, police sources said.
They said that gunmen opened fire on one Ghulam Haider Niazi in the limits of Saddar Police Station.
The slain person was stated to be a cousin of personal secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Revenue Ali Amin Gandapur.