LAKKI MARWAT, Sept 1: Two persons including a runaway prisoner of D.I. Khan jail were killed in a firing incident in Burghu Adamzai village here on Saturday night.

Police said that Azizullah and Sajjad Ali came across their rivals in a musical concert arranged in connection with the marriage of a villager.

The rivals opened indiscriminate firing on them and killed both of them on the spot, they added.

Police said that the accused managed to escape after committing the crime while local people shifted the bodies to a nearby hospital.

They said that Azizullah had escaped from D.I. Khan jail on July 29 when militants attacked the prison to release their arrested colleagues. He was imprisoned for 25 years in a murder case.

The bodies of both the deceased were handed over to their relatives for burial after postmortem, police said.

A case was registered against the alleged killers including Khursheed, Begu Khan, Ammal Khan and Abdul Razzaq on the complaint of Rizwan, a relative of the deceased.

RALLY: The activists of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf took out a rally in support of Col (retired) Ameerullah, their candidate for by-election from National Assembly constituency, NA-27, Lakki Marwat.

The rally was led by PTI regional vice president Salman Saleem, district president Saleem Nawaz and other party leaders. The rally started from Shaheed Abid Ali Chowk and turned into a public meeting at Kargil Chowk after passing through Lakki-Tajazai Road.

The participants of the rally blocked the main road connecting Bannu with Mianwali for some time that caused hardships for transporters and commuters.