NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Two brothers were killed and a passerby was injured when masked men opened fire from a car in Mirali town of the North Waziristan tribal district here on Saturday.

Local residents said that gunmen opened fire from a moving car on two brothers namely Ziauddin, 28, and Mohammad, 10, riding a motorcycle.

They were proceeding from the Mirali Bazaar to Hormez village. A passerby was also caught in the fire and received bullet injuries.

Witnesses said that the attackers escaped while firing in the air.

The police reached the scene and started investigations.

Meanwhile, three people, including two children, were killed and seven others were wounded in a gas cylinder blast near Mirali town on Friday night.

Rescue 1122 officials said that the cylinder exploded inside a residential compound in Khadi village.

Rescue teams shifted the wounded to the tehsil headquarters hospital.

Officials said that the severely injured people were likely to be referred to burns centre in Peshawar as the local hospitals lacked such specialties.

Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2021