PESHAWAR, Aug 3: A tribal group of the semi-autonomous region of Darra Adamkhel kidnapped two people from the settled area of Matani, police said on Thursday.

Malik Mir Ahmad Khan, a resident of the Jan Ghari village, registered a case against 21 people with the Matani police on Thursday morning that their rivals from the adjacent Dara Adamkhel frontier region had kidnapped his two nephews, Fedos and Abad, sons of Said Jan, a few days ago.

He said that on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, their rivals had fired with heavy weapons on their village.

Those nominated in the case were identified as Mir Ahmad Gul, Mehr Dil Khan, Shah Muslim, Nawaz Ali, Ghaffar Khan, Salahud Din, Jalil Jan, Sameen, Imran, Khan Sharif, Abdullah, Riaz, Khandin, Waris Khan, Jameel, Omar Daraz, Nazar Khan, Gul Jamal, Bakht Jamal, Said Kamal and Said Karim.

SP (rural) Karim Khan told Dawn the two groups had a monetary dispute and had been firing on each other’s positions for a couple of weeks.