Lower Dir: An irate cop shot dead his wife, daughter, driver in Lower Dir, police said Saturday.

A policeman opened indiscriminate firing at his own family members’ car in the area of Lower Dir in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing his wife, daughter and driver on the spot. The accused managed to run away from the crime scene.

Khal police reached the spot-on information and shifted the bodies to a hospital for medico-legal formalities. The motive behind the incident has not been ascertained yet as to why the policeman killed his own wife, daughter and his driver. The police have registered the case and started probe into the incident. A mourning atmosphere prevailed in the victims’ native area.