MINGORA: Six people, including a councilor and his son, were killed and several others wounded in different incidents of violence in restive Swat valley on Sunday.
Three members of a family were killed and a woman was injured when a shell fell on the house of Faramosh in Wenai area of tehsil Matta. Two more people suffered injuries when two other houses were hit by shells. The incidents as security forces targeted militant locations in the region after they attacked a security checkpost in Wenai. The injured were rushed to district headquarter hospital Saidu Sharif.

The militants also attacked a Frontier Constabulary post in Charbagh tehsil injuring two security personnel. The militant managed to escape after security forces retaliated.
Union councilor Faridoon Khan and his son Karimullah were killed and their house and shop torched by unidentified miscreants in Mingora city. The bullet-ridden bodies of both father and son were found lying at the Haji Baba Chowk. A written note was also found with the bodies, reading: ‘The cruel people would have to meet the same fate.’

A property dealer Taj Buland was also gunned down by unknown persons in Kanju township of tehsil Kabal.

Meanwhile, forty more supporters of late Pir Samiullah were set free by Taliban loyal to hardline cleric Maulana Fazlullah on Sunday. Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan claimed that no charges had been proved against the detainees who had been sprung free.

The spokesman claimed that 18 war prisoners in their captivity and their fate would be decided by the Taliban Shura (council).