Wedding hall firing in Peshawar: two more succumb to injuries

PESHAWAR: Two persons who were wounded in a firing between two groups at a wedding hall in Gulbahar a day earlier succumbed to injuries at the hospital on Tuesday, raising the death toll to three. One person was killed and seven others wounded when two groups opened fire at a wedding hall near Gulbahar Police Station on Monday evening. Police said that one Asif died and seven persons were taken to Lady Reading Hospital when they sustained injuries in the clash. Officials said that two of the injured, Malik Altaf and Lal Mohammad, expired at the hospital on Tuesday.