PESHAWAR, July 12: Four people were killed in separate incidents in and around the city, while traders of fruit mandi blocked the Grand Trunk Road as a protest against a broad daylight robbery on Tuesday, police officials and sources said. A young man, Aminullah, killed his father Amir Khan early on Tuesday morning in Riaz Ghari area in Daudzai. Mother of the accused registered a case against him and told police that he wanted to get married immediately but this was opposed by his father.

In another incident on the Landi Sarak in the same area, robbers tried to snatch a motorbike from Mumtaz and on his resistance injured him critically. He died in a local hospital on Tuesday morning.

Meanwhile, body of a young man was found in Ghari Baloch area in Faqirabad, and a decomposed body was found on Tuesday in a pond on the Ring Road in Chamkani area. Both the bodies were sent to mortuary of Khyber Medical College.

PROTEST: Dilawar, an accountant working with a commission agent of fruit mandi, Haji Abdul Waheed, was robbed after he had collected about Rs200,000 from various fruit shops in the city.

Witnesses said four armed men ridding a taxi stopped Dilawar on the GT Road and decamped with the amount he had collected for the commission agent.

Later, the traders came out on the main road and blocked it for some time and dispersed peacefully after registering their protest against law and order situation.

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