ATTOCK, Feb 9: Six activists of the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP), three of them brothers, were shot dead and two others injured on the Sanjwal-Attock road on Friday.

Eyewitness said a group of PPP activists was going from Badri village to Attock, the constituency of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, in a wagon when they were intercepted by at least 10 armed men on the Sanjwal-Attock Road. The armed men started firing with Kalashnikovs and pistols, killing six people and injuring two others.

Those who died in the incident have been identified as Syed Safeer Hussain Shah, Syed Zameer Hussain Shah, Syed Dildar Hussian Shah – the three brothers – and their nephew Shezad, Waqas and Hameed. All the victims belonged to the Badri village.

The injured, Sadaqat Ali and Sajjad Hussain, were taken to the Attock District Headquarters Hospital. One of the injured, Sadaqat Ali, was later shifted to the Rawalpindi District Hospital due to his critical condition.

A large number of PPP workers, leaders, family members of the victims, gathered at the DHQ Hospital.

Attock PPP President Sher Afzal Khan, party's senior leader Malik Hakmeen Khan, Syed Azmat Bukhari, Shiekh Ehasan and family members of the victims accused members of the ruling PML of being behind the incident. They demanded immediate arrest of the culprits.

"It's a targeted killing," one of the PPP leaders, said.

However, no arrest had been made till the filing of this report. The situation in the village and the Attock hospital was very tense and personnel of law-enforcement agencies have been deputed there to avert any untoward incident.

APP adds: The Attock District Police Officer said that four police parties had been sent to different place to search for the culprits.

Meanwhile, Attock Nazim Tahir Sadiq condemned the murder of the PPP men, and said that an impartial inquiry had been ordered into to incident.