LANDI KOTAL: Torkham highway blocked by tribesmen at Sultan khel
By Our Correspondent
LANDI KOTAL, Dec 21: Angry tribesmen blocked the Peshawar-Torkham highway at Sultan khel area in Landi Kotal on Tuesday in protest against the killing on Nov 17 of their two persons by highwaymen in Gotki, Sindh.
The protesters placed the coffins of the diseased, Imdad Hussain and Shah Murad, on the road and warned that the bodies would not be buried until their killers were arrested.
According to family sources, unidentified highwaymen had gunned down the two after snatching their oil tanker loaded with about 40,000 litters of oil. After selling the oil, the highwaymen abandoned the empty tanker near a police station in Gotki while the Edhi Foundation buried the victims in a graveyard there.
It was only a week ago that the relatives of the diseased located their graves and brought their mutilated bodies to Landi Kotal on Tuesday morning. The killers had chopped off the victims' hands and legs.
The protesting relatives clashed with khasadar force and snatched their rifles when the khasadar force fired in the air in a bid to open the road. The protesters also pelted private vehicles with stones which caused damage to some of them. The Landi Kotal bazaar also remained closed on Tuesday in protest against the brutal killing of Imdad Hussain and Shah Murad.
