FC official among three killed in Bannu incidents

Published May 26, 2026 Updated May 26, 2026 08:33am
Paramilitary soldiers stand near a body covered with a sheet, after suicide bombers targeted the Federal Constabulary headquarters in Peshawar on November 24, 2025. — Reuters
Paramilitary soldiers stand near a body covered with a sheet, after suicide bombers targeted the Federal Constabulary headquarters in Peshawar on November 24, 2025. — Reuters

BANNU: Three people, including a Frontier Corps official, were killed in two separate firing incidents here.

According to police sources, the first incident took place on Monday evening near Kakakhel Masjid in the Sardikhel area, where unidentified men opened fire on serving FC official Ghazi Rehman, a local resident.

Ghazi Rehman had come to his village on leave to celebrate Eid.

In another incident, the bullet-riddled bodies of two young men were recovered from the Kashu Nullah area of Domel. They weren’t identified until night.

Police shifted the bodies to the hospital and launched investigation to the killings.

Published in Dawn, May 26th, 2026

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