KOHAT, July 29: The police have found bullet riddled bodies of two real brothers in Mohammadzai area and booked four persons including an official of Orakzai Agency administration and an office-bearer of Kohat District Bar Association in the double murder case on Tuesday.

The Cantt police said that they were informed by the local people that two dead bodies were lying in the fields of Mohammadzai village on Parachinar Road.

The deceased were identified as Yasir Shah and Nasir Shah sons of Pir Bad Shah, residents of Mohallah Haji Bahadar, Kohat city. Their bodies were shifted to KDA divisional headquarters hospital for autopsy.

The mother of the slain brothers blamed naib tehsildar of Orakzai Agency, Mohammad Iqbal, secretary general of Kohat Bar Association, Javed Ahmed Kaghazai, Khaista Khan son of Lalaki and Misray son of Munawar for planning and murdering his two sons.

She told police that the accused had invited her sons for dinner in Mohammadzai area on Monday night.

She said that the accused had been alleging for sometime that her sons were involved in the murder of Qaiser Iqbal son of Iqbal, an official in the Orakzai administration.

None of the accused nominated in the FIR was arrested till filing of this report.

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