LAKKI MARWAT, March 6: Bodies of four ‘militants’ who had been killed in a clash with law-enforcement agencies backed by armed Lashkar of locals in Khankhel (Tajori) on Tuesday, were handed over to the Janikhel peace committee, official sources said on Thursday.

They said that the employees of tehsil municipal administration (TMA), Lakki Marwat, had buried the militants, two of them Uzbek nationals and two from Wazir tribe, in Bukhari Shah graveyard in the Lakki Marwat city.

The militants were killed after they kidnapped nazim union council Bakhmal Ahmadzai Malik Muhammad Idrees Khan and his two friends.

The members of Janikhel Wazir peace committee, sources said, approached the district police through a local nazim Maulana Asghar Ali to receive the bodies of the militants.

The peace committee excavated the graves to take out the bodies in the presence of personnel of law-enforcement agencies after the quarters concerned allowed them to take away the corpses of the militants, the sources said.