LANDI KOTAL, Aug 22: Unidentified armed persons shot dead two militants while two tribesmen were killed when their house was hit by a stray mortar shell in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Monday.

Sources said that bullet-riddled bodies of two militants affiliated with Lashkar-i-Islam were found in a deserted place in Akakhel area on Monday morning. No body has claimed responsibility for their killing. — Correspondent