PESHAWAR, Sept 2: The wife of an Arab national was kidnapped, while two men were killed in separate incidents in the city, police officials said here on Thursday.

Dilshad Begum, a resident of Wazir Colony in Faqirabad locality, told police that her daughter Nasreen, wife of Sheikh Hassan, had been kidnapped allegedly by her neighbour Ms Gulaba and her two accomplices on Wednesday night.

She said that her daughter got married to the Saudi Arab national a few years ago but last year he went back to his country without informing his wife. One Wednesday night, Gulaba came to her house and asked Nasreen to accompany her to a marriage ceremony of her relative in a nearby locality. But she and her two accomplices kidnapped her, Ms Dilshada alleged.

In another accident, Akhtar Bibi of Gulbela told Daudzai police that on Wednesday her husband Said Rehman exchanged hot words with Sherog, Fazal, Ali Mohammad and Warkay over a dispute between their children.

Said Rehman was on his way on Thursday when the four men allegedly opened fire and killed him on the spot. Separately, Mohammad Younus, a resident of Sarband, told Pishtakhara police that his father was at a cattle farm in the village when five men - Daud, Gohar, Farman, Said Lal and Abbas Ali - came there and allegedly killed him. He told the police that the accused had an old enmity with his father.