KHAR: Two women teachers were gunned down in Shandai Mor area of Bajaur on Wednesday.

According to eyewitnesses, masked gunmen stopped a vehicle, dragged the women out and sprayed them with bullets. Two men sitting in the vehicle also suffered bullet wounds.

The women were going home from their school in Khar.

The incident took place in a high security zone where there are many security checkposts.

Sources said that Shazia Begum and Shamim Begum worked in a government-run community school.

They belonged to Malakand district and lived in a government colony. Their bodies were sent to their villages.

The injured were identified as Liaquat and Nadir.

Meanwhile, security forces captured 12 suspected militants during search operations in Khar and Mamond areas and two militants, Mahmood Khan and Ziaur Rehman, surrendered.

Troops destroyed the house of suspected militant leader Sher Khan in Khar.