KHAR: Unidentified attackers shot dead a close relative of a pro-government elder in the Bajaur Agency’s Mamond tehsil on Saturday evening, officials and local people said.

They said that Jan Mohammad, a cousin of senior tribal elder Malak Mohammad Aziz Khan was attacked by unknown gunmen while going home in Badan area. He was critically injured and died before being taken to hospital.

Area people and members of peace committees reached the scene soon after the attack and searched for the assailants. However, the attackers managed to escape.

No one claimed responsibility for the murder.

Local people said the deceased had no enmity with anyone in the region and the motive behind the attack was yet to be ascertained.

Officials of the local administration also visited the area and directed the levies force to speed up efforts to arrest the attackers.

Meanwhile, local people and officials said that several tribesmen belonging to various surrounding localities had been arrested in connection with the murder under the collective responsibility clause of the Frontier Crimes Regulations.

Published in Dawn, October 4th, 2015

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