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.

Meanwhile, a man from Thall tehsil of Hangu district committed suicide in Ghamkol camp here on Friday, police said. The Junglekhel police claimed that Nizamuddin, who was living in Ghamkol Afghan refugee camp, shot himself with a pistol and died instantly. He was 35. His body was taken to the KDA divisional headquarter hospital for autopsy and later handed over to his family members.

The police registered a case on the complaint of his mother. However, they said that the motive behind the suicide could not be ascertained. — Correspondent