PESHAWAR: Man killed

Published August 19, 2006

PESHAWAR, Aug 18: One person was killed during a dispute over possession of an official residence at the Pesco Colony, police said.

Akbar Ali, of the Pesco Colony told the East-Cantonment police that his friends Yousuf Bangash and Spen Khan were sitting in the drawing room with him when Said Wahab and a nephew of Murad Khan, assistant line superintendent in Pesco, came there and opened fire on them.

He said Spen suffered bullet injuries and later died, adding that the alleged killers escaped.

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