DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A police constable shot dead a rickshaw driver after an argument over wrong parking of the three-wheeler in front of the Dera two police station here on Friday.

Allah Noor, resident of Mandi Town, in his FIR lodged with the police, said his son, Safirullah, was shot dead by constable Shahidullah outside the Dera police station building.

When contacted, Dera town police officials said the driver was stopped from parking his rickshaw near the entrance of the police station but he refused leading to an argument between him and a constable on duty.

They said that the constable opened fire at the rickshaw driver, killing him on the spot.

The constable was arrested soon after the incident and a case was registered against him, said the officials.

Meanwhile, the police defused a bomb outside the residence of a private TV channel reporter in a busy locality of Dera city on Friday.

The police were informed that a suspicious box was lying outside the residence of Nadeem Qureshi in Mohallah Kiri Alizai. The police along with the bomb disposal squad personnel reached the spot and recovered an improvised explosive device weighing about three kilograms.

The device was later defused by the bomb disposal experts. The police registered case and began investigation.

Published in Dawn, May 31th, 2014