PESHAWAR: On Tuesday, armed men mercilessly murdered at least nine members of a family in a home in the Badaber village of Peshawar, setting off alarms across the country.
Nine people were killed in the horrifying tragedy, including four women and four children, and several others were injured when the armed men broke into the home of one of their opponents near the Badaber police station and began fire without warning.
In their first statement, police stated that property and money conflicts between the two families were the cause of the disturbance.
Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Operations Kashif Zulfiqar, however, refuted the claim, stating that there didn’t appear to be a money issue between the two parties.
He went on to say that an investigation was started to find out why there had been an armed assault. The policeman declared, “Two teams have been constituted to arrest the culprits.” Rescue crews have moved the bodies to the hospital so that a post-mortem may be performed.
The names of the deceased were: Alibaba d/o Muhammad Asfaq; Akash s/o Muhammad Ashfaq; Tufail Afnan s/o Muhammad Ishaq; Hamida Begum w/o Malak Aman; Naureen w/o Ashfaq; and Inkhat s/o Muhammad Ishaq.
The state-run APP reported that among the injured were Saba w/o Ishaq and Iqra d/o Ishaq.
For medical attention, one of the injured women was sent to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.
