Peshawar gunmen kill female teacher

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Unidentified gunmen fatally shot a female head teacher in the Shah Kas area of Jamrud near Hayatabad March 26, officials and family told Central Asia Online."My wife, Shehnaz, was the head teacher of the Government Primary School in Takhta Beg Jamrud," Ishtiaq Ahmad, a resident of Kohati Gate in Peshawar, said. "She was going home with our son Danyal when men wearing hoods shot her." She was shot in a tribal area, police in Hayatabad said. Danyal, 14, escaped injury but is in shock, Ishtiaq said. His wife had taught for 24 years and had worked in Jamrud two years, he added. Meanwhile, authorities reported finding the body of a 20-year-old woman, Noor Bibi, in a bathroom in Lady Reading Hospital (LRH). She had been strangled and stabbed. Two senior doctors will lead an inquiry, LRH spokesman Jamil Shah said.