By AFP 10 January 2024 | 12:45 pm Ten members of the same family, including a two-year-old, were killed in a brutal late-night attack in Pakistan’s northwest, police said Wednesday. Police Line PHOTO: kali9 / Getty Images Ten members of the same family, including a two-year-old, were killed in a brutal late-night attack in Pakistan’s northwest, police said Wednesday. Two brothers, their wives and six children aged 12 and under were killed along with a guest in the Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday night. “The initial investigation does not suggest any connection to terrorism,” district police chief Tariq Habib told AFP. Inter-family feuds are common in Pakistan, but in the northwestern region — where communities abide by traditional honour codes — they can be particularly violent, lasting for generations. “We cannot dismiss the possibility of a personal vendetta as we further investigate the incident,” police official Mamoor Shah told AFP. “They were killed with a sharp-edged weapon and some had bullet injuries,” he said. The incident was reported to police by neighbours of the family. In March last year in the same province, 11 people including a prominent local politician were killed in an ambush blamed on a decades-long vendetta between families. Sixteen people were also killed within a matter of minutes in the province last May when two tribes clashed over a decades-long land dispute. 33 mins ago The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has lamented that some governors have abdicated responsibilities to tertiary institutions in their states to the agency. 1 hour ago Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers, on Tuesday, inspected the deplorable section of the Etche-Igbodo Road in Etche Local Government Area and pledged to immediately commence completion work on the road. 1 hour ago Ten members of the same family, including a two-year-old, were killed in a brutal late-night attack in Pakistan’s northwest, police said Wednesday. 2 hours ago Two men, Usman Garba and Yusuf Abubakar, who allegedly broke into a man’s house to steal cash and property worth 360,000 were arraigned on Wednesday in a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court. 2 hours ago President Bola Tinubu has mourned the passing Sheikh Abdul-Hafeez Aṣhamu Abou, Baba Adinni of Lagos and Chairman of the Executive Council of Lagos Central Mosque. 2 hours ago Guyanese President Irfaan Ali discussed regional security on Tuesday with a senior US defense official as the South American country remains embroiled in a border row with Venezuela over the oil-rich Essequibo region. 3 hours ago The Police on Tuesday said they had arrested three suspected members of a gunrunning syndicate in connection with the Dec. 24 attack on some communities in Plateau. 5 hours ago A baby born at about 3:00 am on Tuesday was stolen by a yet-to-be-identified women at about 6:00 am Tuesday at the postnatal ward of Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital (DASH) Lafia. The mother of the missing baby, Mrs. Wosilat Suleiman, who spoke to journalists at the hospital said her child was stolen around 6:00 am… 6 hours ago The Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to ensure food security in the country. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, stated this when Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State paid him a courtesy call on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that Katsina State remained one of the frontline states in the… 6 hours ago The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Gowon Estate Division, in Lagos State, has been removed for allegedly detaining a lawyer who was seeking justice for his client.
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