Bara tribesmen sit outside Governor House with 18 bodies written updates:-
PESHAWAR: A large number of people on Wednesday staged a sit-in in front of Governor House in Peshawar, protesting against the killing of the 18 people whose mutilated bodies were recovered from the Bara area of Khyber Agency Tuesday evening.
The bullet-riddled bodies were found in the Alam Gudar area.
Reporters and media personnel present on the protest site estimated that around 5,000 people took part in the sit-in underway on Sher Shah Suri Road, right in front of Governor House.
Bara tribesmen are sitting outside Governor House with caskets and bodies of their family members who were killed.
The protestors, including family members of the deceased and social activists, chanted slogans against the army and the security agencies stationed in Khyber Agency and blamed them for the killings.
The tribesmen from Bara said that the people killed were not militants but ordinary citizens, who they said were murdered in cold blood by the security agencies.
