MANSEHRA: The landowners here on Saturday forcibly stopped work on the 870 megawatt Suki Kanari hydropower project, vowing they would not allow execution of the project until their demands regarding payment of market price for their lands and appointments of locals in the dam were met.

The people of Plundrian and Andar Balla areas stopped the engineers and other staff from taking heavy machinery to thedam site.

The people hit by the dam being built on the Kunhar River under CPEC had also taken to the streets on May 8 and threatened to stop work on the dam if their eightpoint charter of demands was not accepted,` Qamar Ali Shah, a member of the committee of the affected people, told reporters on the occasion.

He said the divisional administration had assured them of meeting the commitments before starting work on the project, but the promises were not met, forcingpeople to stop worl( on the hydropower project.

`We want market price of our land, locals` appointments in the dam, establishment of schools, hospitals and residential colonies and provision of free electricity,` said Mr Shah.

SHOT DEAD: A man killed the brother-in-law of his sister over a minor issue on Saturday.

The accused belonging to Abbottabad had come to meet his sister in Khan Bahadar area in the Mansehra city, but he developed some differences with the youngerbrother of his brother-in-law and opened indiscriminate fire on him,leavinghimseriouslyinjured.

The injured was rushed to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, wherefrom he was referred to Ayub Medical Complex Hospital in Abbottabad where he succumbed to injuries.

The local people apprehended the accused and handed him over to police.

The accused told police the victim used to quarrel with his sister.

The city police lodged FIR and started further investigations.