Five of family shot dead in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: Five members of a family, including two minors and as many women, were killed inside a house in Lala Killay on the outskirts of the provincial capital on Tuesday.

Officials said unidentified armed men broke into the house of one Yahya in Lala Killay in the wee hours on Tuesday and opened fire on all the members of the family.

Yahya, his wife Kainat, two children Shoaib, 5, Zohaib, 18 months and his sister-in-law, Esha, 17, were killed in the firing.

The spokesman for the KP Police Waqar Ahmad said the inspector general of police has ordered the capital city police officer to personally supervise investigation into the case and arrest the killers at the earliest.