LANDI KOTAL: Unidentified gunmen shot dead two persons, including a faith healer, in separate incidents in Jamrud on Wednesday.

Khasadar officials said that masked men gunned down a young man, Yousuf Khan, in Gudar area and then escaped.

In a similar attack in Shakas area, unidentified motorcyclists shot dead a faith healer, identified as Bali Shah.

Also in the day, Khasadar force exchanged fire with a group of suspected militants.

However, no one was hurt in the crossfire as militants escaped the area after Khasadars retaliated to the attack.

Meanwhile, in Landi Kotal, a woman and her teenaged daughter were buried alive when they were hit by a landslide.

Sources said that the woman and her daughter were digging mud for repair of their house when a mudslide buried them alive. Family members later retrieved their bodies.

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2014