RAWALPINDI, Dec 13: Two gunmen snatched Austrian ambassador’s car from its driver near the airport, Thursday evening, police said.

The ambassador, Walter Howadt, told Dawn on telephone that his driver, Adalat Khan Lodhi, was on his way to the Islamabad airport to pick his deputy ambassador when the car was hijacked within the Capital limits and later snatched near the airport.”

“My driver and another staff member are with the police to get the case registered”, he added.

When contacted, the Airport police station SHO, Abdul Ghani, told Dawn that the scene of crime did not fall in the jurisdiction of his police station. “The car has been hijacked in Islamabad, therefore, it is the Aabpara police’s responsibility to handle the case”, he added.

The driver informed the Rescue 15 police at 9:15pm that he was on his way to the airport in a white Mercedez car (CD-05-1) when two persons intercepted the vehicle and forcibly got in at Atta Turk Road, G-6/3.

They held the driver at gunpoint and forced him to drive towards the airport, where they dragged him out of the car and drove off in it.

The driver immediately informed the rescue police, who failed to catch the culprits. Till the filing of this report, the embassy staff was struggling to get his case registered with the police.