SWABI: Four people, including two passersby, were killed and nine others injured when a car was ambushed in the limits of Zaida police station here on Tuesday.
Police said that Manzoor Khan, a resident of Marghuz village, was travelling in his car, along with his two gunmen, on SwabiJehangira Road when he came under attack near the district headquarters.
The police said that Manzoor sustained injuries in the attack, while his two gunmen, identified as Mohammad Ghaffar and Sabirullah, died on the spot.
Two other persons, including a woman, the wife of Hamid Khan, and a cleric, Maulana Aftab, who were passing by the area at the time of firing, were also killed.
Zaida police station SHO Raz Mohammad said the car attack was the result of an old enmity. He said police had arrested two suspects in connection with the killings.
He said the rest of the injured were also passersby. They were identified as Rehman Sher, Zahid Gilani, Imran Khan, Aamir Khan, Yousuf Khan, Mohammad Atiq and Masood Khan. The identity of an injured person could not be ascertained. They were taken to different hospitals for treatment.
Meanwhile, the deaths of the woman and the cleric, who was the prayer leader of a mosque in the Torkhel area of Swabi city, sparked a protest at Karnal Sher Chowk.
The protesters demanded the arrest of those involved in the killings of the two passersby.
In another incident, a seven-year-old boy, Mohammad Azlan, a student of a private school, was killed while getting off his school bus on Tuesday, according to his family and police.
They said the child reportedly fell under the wheel of the bus while alighting and died on the spot.