BANNU: Mir Muhammad Khan, uncle of NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani, was shot and killed by unidentified assailants in the Surani area on Monday. One of his bodyguards and two attackers received bullet injuries in the clash, police said. The 50-year-old Khan was returning home from a hunting expedition when the attackers, said to be five in number, ambushed the double-cabin pickup he was travelling in with automatic weapons. "Khan died on the spot while one of his gunmen was injured," Rahatullah Khan of Bannu Town police station told Daily Times. The attackers escaped with their two injured accomplices, who were shot by Khan's bodyguards. According to the local police, the deceased had no known enemies. "He kept bodyguards because he was the uncle of the chief minister of the province," the police official said.
| Apparently he should have kept better bodyguards. |