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Four oil firm officials among 7 kidnapped

Muhammad Irfan Mughal Published November 27, 2016

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Four officials of a multi-national oil and gas company and three Levies personnel were reportedly kidnapped from a site in the semi-autonomous Frontier Region of Dera Ismail Khan on Saturday.

According to local sources, officials of the company were conducting a survey when they erroneously entered South Waziristan.

The sources said that the seven people were taken away on vehicles at gunpoint by unidentified men.

Published in Dawn, November 27th, 2016

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Alba
Nov 27, 2016 09:24am
Anyone entering South Waziristan is in error.
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