PESHAWAR: Authorities in the curfew-bound town of Parachinar have rounded up 95 people since violence erupted following the death of a man in a police shooting four days ago, officials said on Friday.

"We have arrested 95 people for Monday's riots," a local administration official told AFP by telephone. He said curfew was relaxed for two hours on Friday morning to enable people to buy food. But residents of the deeply conservative area were not allowed to leave their homes for Friday prayers, the official said on condition of anonymity.

A mob of some 2,500 tribesmen in Parachinar, 260 kilometres south-west of Peshawar on Monday ransacked offices and torched government vehicles after the tribal police shot dead a man who had refused to stop his car at a check-post, officials said.

The mob also looted shops and damaged public property, forcing the authorities to rush paramilitary troops to the remote town on the Afghan border. "Curfew has caused acute shortage of food and other commodities in the area," resident Karim Khan told AFP by telephone. "The authorities are not allowing even the sick people to visit doctors for treatment." Local officials said the town will remain under curfew until the "wanted" tribesmen who are hiding in the area are arrested.