A trader was shot dead and his three-year-old son injured in an apparent targeted attack tied to a longstanding family feud in Burewala’s Model Town area, police said.
As per the details, the incident occurred in K Block, where the victim, identified as Anwar Kamal Khan, with his son Syed Sultan was shot at by an armed assailant on a motorcycle.
Kamal died at the scene after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds while his son was critically injured and shifted to hospital for treatment.
Police identified the suspect as Siddiqur Rehman, a resident of Bannu.
A murder case has been registered on the complaint of the victim’s wife, and police are conducting raids to arrest the suspect.
Investigators said that the attack appears to have stemmed from a longstanding enmity between Kamal and the suspect. Police sources said that the victim himself had been accused in a murder case dating back to his teenage years, with the investigation revealing that Kamal had allegedly shot and killed a man at the age of 13 before fleeing the area.
The feud reportedly escalated over the years, with rival families carrying out retaliatory attacks.
Authorities said that one member of Kamal’s family was later killed in the dispute, while his brother was also accused of killing two people in separate incidents linked to the same enmity.
Speaking to police, the victim’s wife said that her husband had recently reached a reconciliation with his rivals and had returned to Burewala only a few days earlier. “We believed the dispute had been settled, but our enemies did not let it end. Today they killed my husband,” she said.
