LAKKI MA RWAT: Two unidentified motorcyclists shot dead an elderly man near Nar Sparle Kallay in Naurang town here on Tuesday.
Police said that armed assailants attacked Haroon Rashid, 60, when he was going to the village after shopping in Naurang bazaar. They said the body was shifted to the tehsil headquarters hospital.
Aminur Rashid, son of the deceased,told police that the attackers were armed with AK-47 assault rifles and they escaped on a motorcycle. He said his family had no enmity with anyone.
Police said they had registered a case against the unknown killers.Meanwhile, police arrested over 20 suspects and seized arms and narcotics from them during an operation on Tuesday.
An official said the operation was conducted against anti-social elements in the forests along Gambila River.
He said the police arrested two drug peddlersidentined as Shaista Gul and Najibullah and recovered over five kilogrammes of hashish and one kilogramme of heroin from them.
He said that seven wanted men and 15 suspects had been arrested and five pistols and two shotguns seized in the operation.
