LAKKI MARWAT: An outlaw was killed and another was wounded in a firing incident in Sarga Kherulchel locality of Lakl(i Marwat, police said on Monday.

They said the shooting incident occurred in the limits of Shaheed Haibat Ali Khan police station of Darra Pezu town. Police said the outlaw, Attaur Rehman, came under at tack by his rivals near the village.

He received multiple bullets and died instantly, they maintained, adding another outlaw named Saood Ali Shah hailing from DI Khan district was injured in the attack.

They said the killed outlaw was wanted by police in different cases and that they had registered a case against the killers and begun investigation.

LOAN SHARKS ARRESTED: Police on Monday booked over 20 persons for taking high interest on loans.

An official said the action was taken on the directives of district police officer Arif Shebaz Khan who had received complaints about illegal practice of receiving high interest on private loans.

During a daylong action police raided suspected havens of loan sharks in different localities of the district, he maintained, saying the men involved in the practice were not found at their places when police reached there.

The official said separate cases were registered against those involved in destroying families by giving loans to individuals on high interest.

He said the law-enforcers had intensified efforts to ensure early arrest of the culprits.