LAKKI MARWAT, Jan 30: Three friends were reportedly shot dead by a fourth friend at a village here on Wednesday.

Dadiwala police was informed that three dead bodies were lying in the Shanway nullah near Mash Mastikhani upon which the police recovered the bullet-riddled bodies.“In the meantime relatives of the slain persons also reached there and identified them as Gul Aslam, Basam Jan and Israr,” a police official said.

One Ihsanullah has lodged an FIR against Wilayat Khan claiming that his brother Gul Aslam and his two friends had gone to the village to attend a dinner party at the house of the accused.

“Before death, my injured brother called me through his cellphone at about 9:30pm telling that his friend

Wilayat sprayed bullet upon them near Dalokhel Phatak,” he claimed and said the dead bodies were missing when he along with other relatives reached the said place.

“After a nightlong search, we with the help of the local police found the dead bodies,” he maintained.

The dead bodies were sent to the City Hospital for postmortem. Lakki police have started investigation into the incident after registration a case against the accused.