At least five people including a policeman were killed and two others injured in separate incidents of firing in Dera Ismail (DI) Khan on Tuesday.
Police said that armed men ambushed a group of people in Yark area who were returning after attending a wedding. As a result of the firing, three people including a cop died on the spot while two others were injured.
In a separate incident, unidentified armed men barged into a house in Malangi Town Phase II and opened indiscriminate fire at the residents of a house, killing two men.
The bodies and injured have been shifted to hospital for medico-legal formalities.