09 October 2004	Saturday	23 Shaban 1425

PESHAWAR, Oct 8: A union nazim and his brothers allegedly shot dead two men and a woman of the same family in the Nissata village in Charsadda on Thursday.

The victims had gone to a graveyard in the Nissata village to offer Fateha for the woman's husband Abdul Hakim Khan, who was killed in a clash in the Peshawar general bus stand nearly three months ago.

One of the deceased, Mumtaz Khan, is the elder brother of a first class cricketer, Taimur Khan. The other man, Hashim Khan, was his maternal uncle and the woman was his aunt.

All the deceased belonged to the Garhi Baloch village, Peshawar. Lodging the report at the Nissata police station, Faisal Khan, son of Hashim Khan said that local union nazim Abdul Rehman, along with his brothers Abdul Qayyum and Abdul Saleem had opened fire on his family in the graveyard which resulted in the deaths of two people.

A brother of Hashim Khan, Aurangzeb, ran away when he saw the accused shooting down the two men. He was also badly injured while running in the fields. Before killing the two at the graveyard, the killers had first shot dead the woman at their home, he told the police. Meanwhile, a police official said that a special team had been constituted which was conducting raids to arrest the alleged killers.