HARIPUR, Aug 5: Four people, including three of a family, were killed in two separate incidents here on Friday, police said.

According to Khalabat Town police, unknown assailants entered the house of Loh Khan, a watchman at Fazal Colony, at Sehr time on Friday and shot him dead along with his wife and minor daughter. They said that the family belonged to Kohistan.

Those killed were identified as Loh Khan (41), his wife Warsi Begum (25) and daughter Raheela (4). Loh Khan's father Ishaq Khan later nominated Aurangzeb Khan and his brother Rakhdan Khan in the FIR of the case.

He told the police that Aurangzeb had kidnapped the wife of Loh Khan three years ago, but after two months she escaped and reached Loh's house and had been living with him since then.

In another incident, a mother of six was shot dead by her husband in the jurisdiction of Serai Saleh police station. The police claimed that one Irfan and his wife Saeeda Bibi had an altercation over some issue and that Irfan opened fire at her. Saeeda Bibi was later taken to Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad, where she succumbed to her bullet wounds.

WORKERS STRIKE: The workers of an industrial unit of Hattar Industrial Estate here on Friday continued their strike for the fifth consecutive day to press the management for payment of wages according to the minimum wage rule set by the government.

Sources said that over 70 workers of the Novason Pack Factory had boycotted the routine work against the management for paying them Rs8,200 for 12 hours work, non issuance of letter of appointment, EOBI and social security cards.

They said the government had fixed Rs7,000 as minimum wage for the unskilled labour for eight hours work, but the factory management was paying them Rs8,200 for 12 hours labour.