LANDI KOTAL: 2 die in Khyber Agency

Published December 5, 2004

LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Dec 4: A man was killed and a boy committed suicide in Khyber Agency on Friday. A bullet-riddled body was found in a car in Shah Kas area in Jamrud tehsil.

The locals informed the Khasadar force who took control of the body. The dead man was identified by his national identity card as Sanobar Khan, a resident of Sama Garhi in Akakhel area of Bara tehsil. The body was handed over to his relatives.

A boy Nadir Khan shot himself dead with a pistol. A resident of Landi Kotal, Nadir Khan, 19, locked himself in a room of his house and shot himself dead. The cause of his suicide could not be known.

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