At least five members of a family were killed and two others injured when motorcycle-borne armed men opened fired at them in the restive northwest Pakistan today, police said.
The family was attacked apparently for an old enmity in Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bordering north and south waziristan tribal agencies.
The head of the family, a former personal secretaryof the National Assembly member Ayesha Gulalai, was also killed by motorcycle-borne armed men a few weeks ago.
The injured were rushed to district hospital while the dead bodies were handed over to relatives after post-mortem, the police said, adding that an FIR had also been registered.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is one of the four administrative provinces of Pakistan, located in the northwestern region of the country along the international border with Afghanistan.
For decades, the city of Peshawar, capital of the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has faced the threat of militants, due to its proximity to the restless tribal areas and the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
In September, at least three policemen were killed by two Taliban gunmen in the province.
Last week, a Pakistan Army Major was killed in a shootout with militants during a raid on a terrorist hideout in the tribal region of Dera Ismail Khan.
On November 13, an Army Captain along with a soldier was killed in a cross-border attack by terrorists from Afghanistan in Bajaur Agency.
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