HARIPUR, Jan 23: Manager of a cement manufacturing unit has been kidnapped and the kidnappers have threatened to kill him if Rs15 million ransom was not paid to them, Khanpur police said here on Monday.

Complainant Aatir Samad Tirmzi, son of Samad Ali Tirmzi, packing-plant manager Facto Cement Factory and a resident of Peshawar Road Rawalpindi, told police that his father had left home for the factory on January 20 and, according to his colleagues, took a short leave at around 9:15 am and left on his personal car to attend a funeral in village Rani Wah Khanpur. Thereafter he neither returned home nor to the factory. The kidnappers later left his car near village Mang, some 10 km from Haripur.

In the evening, the complainant said, the kidnappers contacted the family on the cellphone of his father and demanded Rs15 million for his release. They also hurled threat to kill him if their demand was not met.