{"id":15396,"date":"2026-01-19T03:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=15396"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:06:34","slug":"at-least-6-including-women-and-children-killed-as-gunmen-open-indiscriminate-fire-in-kps-karak-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=15396","title":{"rendered":"At least 6, including women and children, killed as gunmen open \u2018indiscriminate fire\u2019 in KP\u2019s Karak: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: At least six members of a family, including two women and children, were killed on Sunday when gunmen opened indiscriminate fire following a \u201cdomestic dispute\u201d in the Sabirabad area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Karak district.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Rescue 1122 official, \u201cUpon receiving the report, rescue officials rushed to the spot immediately, accompanied by ambulances and medical teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the bodies were taken to the District Headquarters Hospital for postmortem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue official further said that a six-year-old and a three-month-old girl were among the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect apprehended<br \/>\nAccording to a police spokesperson, Shaukat Khan, \u201cUpon receiving information about the incident, District Police Officer Saud Khan took serious notice and directed the Sabirabad station house officer to take immediate action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActing swiftly, police arrested the suspect within moments of the incident and recovered the weapon used in the crime,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said that the incident occurred following a \u201cdomestic dispute\u201d when a man opened indiscriminate fire on family members, killing six people on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a young man was shot dead in the Kandukhel area of Karak district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: At least six members of a family, including two women and children, were killed on Sunday when gunmen opened indiscriminate fire following a \u201cdomestic dispute\u201d in the Sabirabad area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Karak district. According to a Rescue 1122 official, \u201cUpon receiving the report, rescue officials rushed to the spot immediately, accompanied by ambulances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court-and-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15398,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions\/15398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}