Councillor, guest shot dead

Published July 15, 2003

HARIPUR,  July 14: A member of union council and another man were shot  dead while the third man was seriously injured in a far-flung  village of PS Lora on Sunday night.

Syed  Tahir  Hussain Shah, resident of village  Komal,  has stated in   an FIR which  that he  and his father,  brother and a guest were sleeping in the  courtyard  when Safeerullah  Shah, Sagheerullah Shah and Abbas Shah  barged  into his  house  and opened fire on  them  killing  his father Syed Dildar Hussain Shah a member of union council Barkot, union  secretary Kala Khan, a guest  on the spot and wounding his brother Syed Naveed Shah seriously.

The motive behind double murder was old family feud.

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