11 bullet-riddled bodies found in Lakki Marwat house

Bullet-riddled bodies of 11 persons including women and children were found in a house in Lakki Marwat, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Wednesday.

According to police, the tragic incident occurred in Takhti Khel area of district Lakki Marwat in which some unknown intruders entered a house and killed 11 persons, 10 of a same family, by firing.

The dead also included two women and six children.

The local residents said that the house of the unfortunate family was located outside the village in their lands. They discovered the bodies early in the morning today.

Police said that it seemed that the firing incident took place yesterday evening.

They said that the bodies have been shifted to the hospital for post-mortem while the investigation into the incident has been started.

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 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.

Reporter Sajid Baloch