According to District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Imran, armed assailants opened fire on the bus and car in the Sadda area which resulted in the deaths of four people.
The dead included two security personnel, a driver and a woman, said DPO Imran, adding that the police have launched a manhunt to arrest the attackers while security has been beefed up in the area.
"The armed attackers targeted two vehicles going from Parachinar to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...," said the DPO.
Last week, six barbers were kidnapped and murdered after which their bodies were dumped in a field in Mir Ali tehsil in North Wazoo tribal.
Local and official sources said that the bullet-riddled bodies of six men were found in the field in Muski village located in Mir Ali. They said that the initial investigation suggested that the victims had been rubbed out after being kidnapped.
The slain persons, the sources added, were all barbers, stated to be non-locals and had recently shifted to North Waziristan. They were running barber shops in Mir Ali Bazaar.