SUKKUR, May 28: An owner of a small shop Hira Lal, 35, has reportedly been kidnapped by unidentified armed persons near Osta Bhalay Dino Abad on his way  to Jacobabad in a passenger wagon on Monday.

He was returning to his home in Jacobabad from Qadir Pur. When the wagon reached at Osta Bhalay Dino Abad near Jacobabad, four unidentified armed persons in a car intercepted the vehicle and pulled him out on gunpoint. He was taken away in the car to an unknown destination.

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