LAKKI MARWAT: Three people were shot dead in separate incidents here on Friday.

Police said a shooting incident occurred in Abakhel village the limits of Lakki Marwat police station where a man was killed over a blood feud. They said brothers, Mohammad Suleman and Salahuddin, were attacked by their rivals Abdul Rehman and Abdullah near a government middle school when they were going to the bus stand.

As a result, Salahuddin died instantly while Suleman miraculously escaped. The killers fled the scene and police registered a case against them.

Police said a young man, Mohammad Nadeem, was shot dead over a land dispute in Wanda Kalan. The deceased and his brother, Mohammad Zeshan were working in their fields when their rival, Halim Shah, came there and sprayed them with bullets, inflicting serious injuries to Nadeem, who succumbed to injuries on way to hospital. The police registered a case against the alleged killer who escaped the area.

An armed man shot and killed a villager, Aslam Javed, in Wanda Sharbat in the jurisdiction of Shaheed Haibat Ali Khan police sta-tion. Police registered a case against the killer on the complaint of deceased`s f ather, Haji Abdul Aziz, and began investigation.

PROJECTS OPPOSED: JUI-F MPA Malik Noor Saleem Marwat has said launching of projects like Swat Expressway and Bus Rapid Transit in Peshawar is waste of money and the provincial government should not spend billions of rupees on such projects.

He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of standardised building of Government Higher Secondary School, Shahbazkhel, on Friday.

The building was built with a cost of Rs80 million by the communication and works department with the technical assistance of Nespak.

The MPA said the militancy-hit province did not need such type of projects at the moment, and asked the government to divert its attention to the uplift of backward districts.

`The rulers should know that education, not expressways and bus transit systems, make nations,` he maintained, adding the nations which focused on promotion of education achieved goal of socioeconomic development. Correspondent