NOWSHERA, Feb 7: A man was killed and three others wounded when customs mobile squad opened fire on a fast moving car at Kund in Khairabad bordering Punjab. Collector of Customs, Peshawar has ordered an inquiry into the incident.

One of the wounded Gul Mohammad, an Afghan refugee, presently based in the Katcha Garhi refugee camp, told the Akora Khattak police that he was travelling along with others in a pickup when around midnight a custom squad opened fire on them from the rear.

The burst of Kalashinkov killed one and wounded three others, one of them seriously.

He said the squad after firing left them and returned towards Kund. He said they did not see the customs squad signalling them to stop and it was ironic that they were chased and shot at near the computer checking centre on the other side of river Indus in the Punjab.

He said local shopkeepers helped them and shifted them to a hospital.

The Khairabad police rushed to the scene of the incident situated in the Punjab but the police there refused to cooperate, a local constable said.

The police however, retrieved ten empty cartridges of Kalashinkov from the site of the occurrence.

Eye witnesses said the customs squad could not get any contraband goods from the vehicle. Collector of the Customs, Humayoun Sikandari has ordered inquiry into the incident.