10 February 2004	Tuesday	18 Zilhaj 1424

RIYADH, Feb 9: Police have found the decomposed body of a 10-year-old Pakistani boy in the stagnant pool of Wadi Al-Erwa in Madinah. The boy had been kidnapped about two weeks ago.

Preliminary examinations showed that the captors had sexually abused the boy before killing him. The boy's father, Ghulam Mustafa, has been living in Madinah for 40 years. He told police that he had seen his son being forced into a car in front of the family's house. He chased the car on foot but it disappeared, and police had been searching for the boy since then.

Gen Yousuf Al-Binayan, head of the Madinah police said early investigations had led to three unemployed young men, aged 17, 18 and 20, who were arrested. The three live in the same neighbourhood where the victim lived.