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Pakistan: Locals demonstrate against police over killing of villager
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Pakistan: Locals demonstrate against police over killing of villager

| @indiablooms | 24 Apr 2023, 04:36 am

Lakki Marwat: Locals demonstrated against the police in  Shahbazkhel town of Pakistan on Friday over the killing of a villager, media reports said.

The police, however, claimed the killer was arrested and taken to the police station.

The protesters insisted that a policeman in plainclothes opened fire in the bazaar killing a villager and injuring a cloth merchant, reports Dawn News.

The locals were seen shouting slogans against the incident.

Cloth merchant Faisal Shadi Khan told police that he and his brother Mohammad Ismail were present inside their shop when policeman Asifullah carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and accompanied by an unidentified armed man showed up, took a piece of cloth and left without payment, reports Dawn News.

He said he was manhandled as he asked the policeman for payment.

The complainant said both armed men later intercepted him and his brother as the latter were on the way to the police station to lodge a complaint against the former.

He added that the two men opened fire injuring his brother and passerby Mohammad Riaz Khan, who later died.

The residents later staged a demonstration on the Indus Highway.

Officials of the police and administration held talks with protesters and persuaded them to reopen the highway.

A police official said constable Asifullah had been taken into custody after the registration of a case against him and the accompanying unidentified man over the firing incident.

He said the policeman’s assault rifle along with magazines, bullets and two hand grenades were also sezied.

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