KOHAT, Jan 23 Unidentified people killed two shepherds who mistakenly entered the Sheikhan area of the Orakzai Agency from Kohat while grazing their animals on Friday.

Police said the two brothers, Mohammad Zaman and Abdul Ali, left their home in the Kachai area of Kohat for grazing their animals. When they entered the hilly Sheikhan area, they were killed by armed men, who also took away their animals.

The bodies were shifted to the KDA Divisional Headquarters Hospital for autopsy and then handed over to relatives. The Ustarzai police registered a case.

KIDNAPPED Armed men kidnapped the manager of a swift centre of NADRA in the Togh Bala area on Friday.

Police said a NADRA mobile team was coming back to its Kohat office after preparing cards in some area when the armed men stopped their vehicle and took away the official, Vaqas Shah, in their car. A case has been registered in the Saddar police station.

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