MANSEHRA: Three people were killed and several others sustained critical injuries in different incidents here on Saturday.

Sher Khan and Adil Nazir groups exchanged heavy fire in the Tanda area here over a land dispute as a result Mohammad Tariq was wounded. He was shifted to a nearby health facility where doctors pronounced him dead.

The exchange of fire also left eight people seriously injured, including two passersby.

Locals rushed them to a nearby health facility where the condition of two of them was stated to be critical.

Police after lodging an FIR started raids to arrest the accused, who managed to flee.

Meanwhile, a young boy was killed and his brother received critical injuries when a car plunged into a deep ravine in the Kotli Bala area here.

Locals rushed Abdul Waheed and Mohammad Shams to a nearby health facility where doctors pronounced the former dead.

In another incident that happened in the Satbani area of Balakot Nadeem Kamran died.

According to locals, he was reversing the jeep on a steep road when the steering went out of his control and it fell into a deep ravine. Locals shifted the injured to a nearby health facility where doctors pronounced him dead.

Meanwhile, a joint team of police and other departments led by the assistant commissioner Oghi, Muhammad Ali, paid a surprise visit to local bazaars and markets and fined dozens of shopkeepers, fruit and vegetable venders and butchers for overcharging.

RAMAZAN PACKAGE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s deputy provincial president Kamal Saleem Swati on Saturday said that Rs12500 would shortly be transferred into the accounts of low-income families in the district and the rest of the province.

“The district administration is rapidly finalising the lists of low-income households for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s Ramazan Relief Package and money would shortly be transferred into your accounts,” he told a gathering of deserving families here.

Mr Swati said that he held a meeting with heads of the relevant departments and directed them to expedite the process further.

The PTI leader said that the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had announced a Ramazan Relief Package providing direct financial assistance of Rs12,500 per family for over 1,063,000 low-income households across the province.

The PTI leader said that the government had also supplied wheat flour to people at subsidised prices in Mansehra and the rest of the province.

“The chief minister, Sohail Afridi, and Speaker KP Assembly Babar Saleem Swati have directed the district administrations and the food department to ensure that quality wheat flour is supplied under the subsidised scheme,” Mr Swati said.

Published in Dawn, February 22nd, 2026