LAKKI MARWAT: A girl and her mother allegedly died by suicide inside their house in Asgharkhel area of Lakki Marwat district on Sunday, the police said.

They said the incident occurred in the limits of Shahbazkhel police station. They said the bodies were transported to the District Headquarters Hospital to complete medico-legal formalities.

Mohammad Nawaz, 48, told police in his preliminary report that he was ploughing his fields with a tractor when he was called out to his home. `When I reached there I found the women wailing and weeping,` he said.

He said he also found his niece, Zainab Bibi, 14, lying in seriously injured condition inside a room, who later died before being shifted to hospital.

`The girl ended her life by shooting herself with a repeater gun,` he claimed.

The complainant told police at the time of occurrence, his sister-in-law, Razia Bibi, 37, (mother of the deceased girl) was not present at home, hence she was immediately called out.

`Razia could not bear the grief of her daughter`s death, she went inside the same room and fired at herself with the same weapon,` he added.

The complainant said Razia was critically injured and succumbed to her injuries while being shifted to hospital.

He told police his niece, Zainab died by suicide as she was not happy over tense relations between her father, Ayaz Khan and her mother.

The police said they initiated an investigation into the incident after registration of a case.

COMPENSATION: Compensation cheques were distributed among the families affected by the twin suicide blasts in Bannu on Sunday.

Deputy commissioner Abdul Hameed Khan along with MNA Maulana Syed Naseem Ali Shah gave away financial assistance worth Rs15 million to the heirs of civilian martyrs and the injured at a ceremony.

Commander 116 Brigade Brig Naveed Ahmad along with DC Hameed and assistant commissioner Allah Nawaz attended a collective prayer ceremony for martyrs and injured during a visit to the blast-hit locality.

The deputy commissioner said a survey of the damaged houses had been completed and sent to the provincial government for payment of early compensation to the affected families.