Hostages return

Published March 16, 2003

KHAIRPUR, March 15: Three members of the Jeha clan reached home here on Friday night after six days to their kidnapping.

The kidnappers left the hostages — Raza, Muneer and Arbab — near a banana orchard in the Kutcha area of Ahmedpur from where they came to their houses.

The relatives of the hostages did not allow the three youths to talk to journalists, saying that the police had said that they should not to talk to journalists.

Six days ago, some armed men kidnapped the three youths when they were working in a field, near the Jeha Masjid village.

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