Police officials said in their initial statement that the incident was a result of monetary and property disputes between the two families.
PESHAWAR: A horrific incident in which at least nine members of a family were brutally killed by gunmen in a house in Peshawar‘s Badaber village on Tuesday shocked the entire country.
In this horrifying incident, armed persons entered the house of the opponents and fired indiscriminately in the limits of Badaber police station, as a result of which 9 people including 4 women and 4 children were killed while others were injured.
Police officials said in their initial statement that the incident was a result of monetary and property disputes between the two families.
However, Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Operations contradicted the statement and said that there was seemingly no monetary dispute between both parties.
He added that a probe was launched to ascertain the motives behind the armed attack. “Two teams have been constituted to arrest the culprits,” the police officer said. The bodies have been shifted to hospital for post-mortem by rescue teams.
Those killed were identified as Naureen w/o Ashfaq, Sidra d/o Amanat Ali, Hamida Begum w/o Malak Aman, Alibaba d/o Muhammad Asfaq, Akash s/o Muhammad Ashfaq, Tufail Afnan s/o Muhammad Ishaq and Inkhat s/o Muhammad Ishaq.
The injured included Saba w/o Ishaq and Iqra d/o Ishaq, according to state-run APP.
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One of the injured women was shifted to Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, for medical assistance.
Police collected empty shells of cartridges and other evidence from the crime scene and registered a case on the report of the heirs.
SSP Investigation Sahibzada Sajjad said that four teams headed by Superintendent Police (SP) Saddar Circle were dispatched to arrest the criminals. He added that motives behind the incident would be revealed after a thorough investigation.
