In a tragic incident in Asbanr Shorshang area of Lower Dir district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a government schoolteacher and his young daughter were shot dead by unidentified assailants on Wednesday.

According to police sources, the victim, identified as Umar Khaliq, a teacher at Government Primary School Manrai, was traveling on a motorcycle with his five-year-old daughter to school when unknown gunmen opened fire. Both father and daughter died on the spot.

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Police said the motive behind the killing could not be immediately ascertained.

Following the incident, residents staged a protest by placing the bodies on the road, blocking the Chakdara-Chitral main highway for two hours. The demonstrators demanded the immediate arrest of the killers.