LAKKI MARWAT: A Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Frontier Corps official was shot dead over a petty dispute in Jhangkhel village of Lakki Marwat district on Saturday, the police said.

They said that heated arguments over a children’s quarrel led to the murder of FC man in the remote locality, which lies in the area limits of Shaheed Haibat Ali Khan Police Station of Darra Pezu town.

They said that the deceased, Mujahid, 25, and his father, Mustaqeem, 53, were on their way home when armed men, including Yar Khan and Kifayatullah attacked them with their assault rifles.

Mustaqeem, who remained unhurt in the attack, told the police in his preliminary report that his son was serving in Frontier Corps (Kurrum unit) and had come to the village on leave.

“On Saturday morning, Mujahid exchanged harsh words with the attackers over a children’s quarrel, and then we left for the fields to harvest wheat crop,” he maintained.

He said that the assailants opened fire on them when they were going home from the fields.

He told the police that his son sustained bullet injuries and died instantly while he escaped miraculously.

The police said that the body was shifted to a rural health facility in Titterkhel town for medico-legal formalities.

They said that they had registered a case against both the killers under relevant sections of law and began investigation.

Published in Dawn, April 30th, 2023