BAJAUR: Unidentified assailants shot dead a man and injured two others in Nawagai tehsil near the Pak-Afghan border here in the wee hours on Friday.

Local residents and Rescue 1122 officials told Dawn that the incident occurred in Saida Shah Charmang locality.

The residents claimed that the victims, after receiving phone calls from anonymous callers asking them to check a suspicious activity in the area, had just stepped out of their houses when they came under fire by unknown assailants.

They said people of the locality rushed to the site after hearing gunshots, and found one person dead and two injured. They said the attackers managed to escape the area.

Rescue officials said the deceased was identified as Noor Alam Khan and the wounded as Noor Khan and Lal Mohammad, adding the injured were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital, Khar.

District police officer Abdul Samad Khan said the police after registering a case had launched a search to trace the culprits.

Published in Dawn, April 16th, 2022