Headmaster kidnapped in Gwadar

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GWADAR: The headmaster of a government school and another man were kidnapped from different areas of Kech Turbat district on Sunday, police said.

Rafeeq Oman, the headmaster of Government High School, Bal Nagor, was going to the District Education Office in Turbat when gunmen kidnapped him.

“Mr Oman was going to the District Education Office Turbat to submit examination forms of his students when he was kidnapped and taken to some unknown place,” police said.

In the other incident in Bal Nagor’s Kapkapar area, armed men forced a bus passenger identified as Akbar to get off the vehicle and took him away. Mr Akbar was going to Gwadar.

Published in Dawn, September 22nd , 2014

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