PESHAWAR, June 13: Hundreds of people of Zangali village stormed a police checkpoint, damaging it and ransacking the furniture and electric appliances, after the alleged refusal of police to register a murder case here on Wednesday.

One Faqir Rehman was gunned down and Mohammad Qasim injured when their rivals opened fire on them while they were working in fields. The victims, belonging to Zangali village, had a land dispute with their rivals.

The relatives of the dead and injured men told reporters that when they went to lodge an FIR against their rival group, the Badhbare police refused to book those involved in the attack.

They alleged that a judge and a bureaucrat had telephoned the police, asking them not to register the FIR, because the murderers were their relatives.

The villagers blocked the Indus Highway using heavy rocks from 10am till 2pm.

They lifted the blockade when police officials assured them that the case would be registered.