NAWABSHAH, Aug 5: A young man was kidnapped by seven armed men from near Sakrand bypass on the National Highway on Sunday. Arshad Ali Memon, 28, sales supervisor in a motorcycle company, was coming to Nawabshah from Hyderabad with his younger brother Shafqat Hussain in a rented car driven by Ghulam Murtaza Solangi.

As the car reached the bypass, the armed men stopped it, got hold of the occupants on gunpoint and three of them kidnapped Arshad Ali Memon in their car. Four armed men took Shafqat Hussain and the driver to a banana filed and tied them with trees. After the assailants left the place, Shafqat Hussain and Ghulam Murtaza untied themselves, escaped and reached the Sakrand police station.

Later, Shafqat received a phone call from Arshad's mobile phone and was told by the kidnappers to arrange ransom money to secure his brother’s release. The kidnappers also told Shafqat that their car had been parked at Naushahro Feroze bypass.

When contacted, Sakrand SHO Habib-ur-Rehman Lashari said that the police had recovered the abandoned car after received information about it from the Motorway police.

AERIAL FIRING: A young man was killed in aerial firing during a marriage ceremony at a village near Gupchani late Saturday night. Mohammed Rafiq Rind, 20, was seriously injured after receiving bullet injury.