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Minor girl killed in Hangu roof collapse
Our correspondent
HANGU: A minor girl was killed and two others sustained injuries in a roof collapse incident in Thall tehsil of Hangu district on Thursday, sources said.The sources said that a roof of the house of Shaukat Zaman collapsed in Mohallah Dhobiyan. Areena, 12, was killed while nine-year-old Sanaa and eight-year-old Eman sustained injuries in the incident. The injured were shifted to the Civil Hospital in Thall where their condition was stated to be out of danger.

QWP leader injured
Bureau report
PESHAWAR: A local leader of Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) sustained injuries when unidentified gunmen opened fire on him on the University Road on Thursday, police officials said. An official said Haider Khan, a leader of the QWP, told police that he was traveling on the University Road when Yousaf and Umair of Danishabad allegedly opened fire on him near the Customs House.

Student commits suicide in Dargai
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DARGAI: An eighth class student who failed the examination reportedly committed suicide in Badragga area, local sources said.The deceased student, Nasira Bibi, daughter of Toti Rehman of Momin Killay village, was a student of class eight at the Government Girls High School, Qadir Killay in union council Badragga, in Dargai tehsil. The sources said she was dejected after failing to pass the 8th class examination and she swallowed pesticide to end her life.She was quietly buried in her village.The student had already been engaged to a boy from Badragga.Her death shocked the people and some demanded a probe to establish as to how she lost her life.

Cop shot dead in Bannu
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BANNU: A cop was shot dead by an armed man in the busiest ‘sabzi mandi’ in the limits of the City Police Station on Thursday, sources said.The sources said that the Constable Hashim Khan was buying vegetables at the market when gunman opened fire on him, leaving him dead on the spot. The accused managed to escape from the scene. The body of the slain cop was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital in Bannu for medico-legal formality. The motive behind the murder was stated to be an old enmity.The police registered the case on the complaint of the deceased’s brother, Assistant Sub-Inspector Ihsanullah, against the accused Bakhtbaz belonging to Landi Jalandhar and started investigation.

CTD says militant carrying head money arrested
Bureau report
PESHAWAR: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday arrested an alleged militant carrying a head money of Rs500,000.An official of the CTD said an alleged member of proscribed organisation, Lashkar-e-Islam, Saadat Khan of the Khyber Agency was arrested during an action in Matani. The officials said the accused was involved in the attack on Frontier Constabulary soldiers as well as kidnapping of four of them. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had put Rs 500,000 bounty on the head of the accused.