• Most incidents ended in gunfights leading to deaths.
• Bodies of 3 missing children recovered in rainwater drain.
• Police investigating all incidents after registering cases.

Sixteen people, including eight children and four women, were killed and seven others sustained injuries in six separate incidents over a few hours in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Geo News reported on Wednesday.

According to Peshawar police, a family dispute over money and property led to a tragic incident in the suburban area of Badaber.

The family's relatives entered the house and killed five children and four women (total of nine people) over the property issues.

KP Governor Faisal Karim Kundi and Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur offered their condolences to the bereaved family and ordered the immediate arrest of the culprits.

In another incident in Badaber, a land dispute resulted in a gunfight, leaving one person dead and two injured.

In a seperate incident, an old enmity claimed two lives when the deceased's vehicle came under an attack on Ring Road in the city area of Pushtakhara.

Meanwhile, a dispute over irrigation escalated into gunfire, resulting in a death and injury to another in the city's suburban area of Sheikh Muhammadi. 

Similarly, a gunfight between two parties over an unspecified issue left three people wounded.

The bodies of three missing children were recovered in a rainwater drain in the city area of Regi Lalma. The police stated that the families had reported the children, aged between 8 and 12, missing at the Nasir Bagh police station.

According to the bereaved families, the children had gone out of their house to play and were found dead the next morning in the rainwater drain.

Investigations into all incidents have been launched after registering cases, a police spokesperson said.