LANDI KOTAL: Unidentified men killed a teenage boy in Bara tehsil of Khyber tribal district and threw his body in fields in Sipah area on Saturday.

Khasadar officials said residents in Du Jangi area in Sipah alerted them to the presence of a body on the banks of an irrigation canal. They said the body was shifted to a local hospital where the victim was identified as Bilawal of Malakdinkhel.

The officials said that they had also collected some items from where the body was found and had started investigations after registering an FIR.

Meanwhile, four persons, including children, received injuries when a vehicle of a wedding procession collided with a trailer near Michni checkpost near Torkham on Saturday.

Khasadar officials said the wedding procession was on way to Torkham. They said the accident occurred due to over-speeding. They said the injured were shifted to Landi Kotal hospital where condition of a girl child was stated to be critical.

Published in Dawn, October 20th, 2019

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