Four people were killed while another was wounded seriously during an attack carried out by some unidentified but professional killers at a Landa Bazaar building in the Naulakha police precincts here on late Monday night.Three of the killed persons were identified as NWFP inhabitants and traders of garments Bahadur Khan, Muhammad Khan and Ali Muhammad while one of the killed persons was unidentified. The unknown victim was a Punjabi and was visiting the three Pakhtoons for some business deal and also became a target. Ages of those killed were between 30 to 45 years. Injured Ejaz was in critical condition in Mayo Hospital.
The killed and injured Pakhtoons, apparently of a family, had since long obtained the third-storey of Lucky Center on rent and had turned a room into accommodation-cum-office. Mainly, police said, faces and chests of the victims were targeted and all of them were fired at from quite a close range. Operations police chief Aamer Zulfiqar said that seven to eight empties of TT pistols were recovered from the crime scene.