Four killed in Darra

Published March 16, 2003

PESHAWAR, March 15: A fierce gunbattle erupted between two rival groups in the gun-manufacturing town of Darra Adamkhel over a land dispute which left four people dead and two injured on Saturday.

An official at APA Darra Office in Kohat said that two groups belonging to Zarghunkhel and Mulano Kallay, who are close relatives as well, engaged themselves in a bloody clash over a land dispute.

According to reports, one of the family of Zarghukhel had forcibly been evacuated from the area by their relatives long ago, which then settled in Mattani, FR Peshawar.

The family, not happy over their eviction, decided to take revenge of their disgrace.—APP

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