September 05, 2007	Wednesday	Sha'aban 22, 1428

LANDI KOTAL, Sept 4: Two kidnapped officials of the City Development and Municipal Department were released on Tuesday by their captors 12 hours after their abduction.

CDMD director Ikramullah Khan, deputy director Zahid Khan and other two along with their driver were kidnapped from the site of the Regi Lalma Model Town on Monday.

The Khyber agency political authorities dispatched a number of teams of Khasadar force to several places and conducted raids to get the kidnapped officials freed.

Sources said that the kidnappers left the officials in Sra Shaga area of Zakhakhel Bazaar after one of their accomplices was killed and another arrested during an encounter with the Khasadar force in Jamrud.

The kidnapped officials were brought to the Khyber House by the Khasadar force on Tuesday morning. Ikramullah Khan and Zahid Khan told journalists that one of their captors escaped midway after learning about the killing of one of their colleagues.

The other kidnappers also got nervous and left them in Sra Shaga at around 10pm.

Khyber Agency political agent Syed Amiruddin informed the journalists that they had identified the kidnappers and expressed the hope that they would be arrested soon.