LARKANA: Two hostages recovered

Published September 16, 2003

LARKANA, Sept 15: The Larkana police in a raid recovered two kidnapped brothers from the Golodaro village, Shikarpur, early Monday morning.

The recovered brothers, Abdul Aziz, 5, and Abdul Haq, 3, who were kidnapped on Sept 7 in the Surhiya Paddhar locality, Market police station jurisdiction, were handed over to their father, Abdul Haq Shaikh, at the DPO office.

Talking to journalists here on Monday, sub-inspector Ghulam Abbas Chandio, who led the raiding police party, said donkey-cart driver Ahmad Panhyar, who was arrested from the Empire Road as a suspect in the case two days back, had pointed out the whereabouts of the children and the kidnappers.

Panhyar said he coaxed the children while they were playing outside their house and handed them over to a man, Usmam Odhano, who promised to pay him Rs40,000 for the kids, at the main bus terminal. He said Odhano took the children to the Golodaro village and kept them in the house of Faiz Mohammad Bhatti.

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