PESHAWAR, May 24 : Terrorists killed four members of a local peace committee in an ambush in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, police said.
The incident occurred in Kulachi tehsil of Dera Ismail Khan District in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
According to the police, the heavily armed terrorists opened fire on members of the peace committee.
As a result, four peace committee members died on the spot, police added.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
The terrorists also abducted a committee member and seized the weapons from the possession of other peace committee members, police said.
The security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation.
Authorities said further investigation into the attack is underway.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region in northwest Pakistan has faced recurring unrest over the years, driven by militant violence, cross-border movement of fighters from Afghanistan and repeated military operations.
The government accuses the banned terror outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan of carrying out terror attacks in provinces bordering Afghanistan after its ceasefire deal ended in November 2022. (PTI)
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