NOWSHERA, May 16: Security guards on Wednesday held a man after seizing 300 bags of wheat flour at a Haji Iftikhar Market store near Jalozai camp and handed him over to police.

Mohammadullah, a resident of Parachinar area in Kurram Agency, told police that he was to smuggle the bags to Punjab at night.

Police said the accused had named men at Jalozai camp as accomplices. Also in the day, a man killed his son-in-law in Behram Kaly area and fled.

Darvesh Khan told Risalpur police that his 22-year-old son, Wali Rehman, was killed by Haji Irshad Khan for being angry over the former’s love marriage with the latter’s daughter. —Correspondent

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