LAKKI MARWAT: A man was shot dead over enmity in Bachkan Ahmadzai area of Lakki Marwat district on Saturday.

Police said that the murder incident took place in the limits of Serai Gambila police station.

They said that Najeeb Khan, 45, and his brother Kameen Shah were intercepted by their rivals when they were going to their village in a three-wheeler.

They said that the armed rivals including Syed Alam and Quli Khan opened firing on Kameen Shah, killing him on the spot.

Najib Khan told police in his preliminary report that their rivals suddenly appeared and signaled the driver to stop his auto-rickshaw when they reached near a religious seminary on Tajori road.

He said that they alighted from the rickshaw and ran to save their lives but the armed rivals sprayed his brother with bullets.

“When the attackers fled the scene, I approached my brother and found him lying dead,” he said.

Police said that the body was handed over to relatives for burial after completing medico-legal formalities at district headquarters hospital Tajazai.

They said that they registered a case against the killers under sections 302 and 34 of Pakistan Penal Code and began investigation.

Published in Dawn, May 12th, 2024