Four taken hostage

Published October 6, 2008

KHAIRPUR, Oct 5: Four people went missing late on Saturday night while returning from Soomar Ghumro village near Khuhra after attending a wedding party and their relatives suspected they had been kidnapped.

Reports said that Tariq Kolachi and Karim Dino Ghumro were going to Khuhra in a car to pick another friend Abdul Qadir Sehto and them to go together to attend a marriage ceremony in Soomar Ghumro village but they went missing on their way back to the village and never reached the wedding party.

Their relatives made several attempts to make a contact with them on their cellphones but failed. They suspected the four might have been kidnapped after their car was found abandoned at some distance from Khuhra town.

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