Lakki Marwat: A festive weekend sporting event ended in tragedy when heavily armed militants ambushed a group of local villagers in Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Saturday.
According to preliminary police reports, the victims were young men from the area who were travelling to Shah Hasankhel to watch a community cricket match. As they were returning to their village in a rickshaw, armed assailants ambushed them near the Abdulkhel locality, within the jurisdiction of the Shaheed Haibat Ali Khan police station in Darra Pezu town.
The attackers opened fire indiscriminately on the vehicle before fleeing the scene. Three youths identified by police as Umair, Sadiq Amin, and Alyian died instantly from multiple gunshot wounds.
Local residents and emergency teams rushed to the site shortly after incident, transporting the deceased and the injured to Government City Hospital in Lakki Marwat. Medical personnel confirmed that the three injured survivors, Imdadullah, Asifullah, and Ijaz Khan, are receiving emergency medical treatment for bullet wounds.
Security forces cordoned off the Abdulkhel and Darra Pezu corridors following the incident, and initiating targeted search operations to track down the assailants.
The attack highlights the volatile security situation across KP, where civilian commuters and rural transit routes have increasingly faced assaults by militant outfits operating in the area.
