KOHAT, Aug 12: Unknown armed men killed a member of tribal lashkar of Bara tehsil near the headquarters of Orakzai Agency in Hangu on Friday.

Officials said that a member of peace lashkar of Bara, Khyber Agency, Malik Jan Afridi had come to Hangu for some domestic work when unknown armed men shot him dead on the main Hangu-Parachinar road.

The Hangu police have registered a case against the unknown assailants and sent the body of the deceased to his native village in Khyber Agency for burial.

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