Four laborers were killed after being hit by a mortar shell at a factory in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Wednesday.
According to official sources, the shell, which was fired from an unknown location, struck the factory located in Spah area of Bara, killing four laborers and damaging the building. Locals pulled the dead bodies from the factory and shifted them to hospital. In a separate incident, Naikmat Khan, a militant commander, who was planting a bomb to target security forces, was killed after the explosive device went off.