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An election candidate affiliated with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was gunned down in Bajaur on Wednesday.
The district police officer and SHO Rashid Khan confirmed the news of the PTI leader’s murder.
Khan, contesting as an independent, was also a candidate for provincial assembly seat PK-22.
According to police, Khan was travelling to Sadeeqabad Phatak for election campaign when unknown men fired on him. Khan was struck by bullets on the head and forehead and severely injured.
He was taken to the Khar hospital but did not survive.
This is the second attack on PTI’s electioneering within 24 hours. A day earlier, a bomb ripped through a PTI rally in Sibi, leaving at least four people dead and five others injured, according to police and witnesses.
Saddam Tareen, the PTI candidate for the National Assembly constituency of NA-253, who was leading the rally on Jinnah Road, escaped unharmed. The injured were transported to the Sibi district headquarters (DHQ) hospital for urgent medical attention.
