GWADAR: Three people, among them an 11-year-old schoolboy, were kidnapped from Gwadar city and Kech district on Thursday.

Police said on Friday that Abdul Haq, the student, was abducted from his home on the outskirts of Gwadar. Some people broke into the house of one Abdul Latif on Thursday evening and took the boy away.

“Armed men arrived in a pick-up and kidnapped the boy,” a senior police officer said, adding that a case had been registered against unidentified kidnappers and an operation launched to find the boy.

In Kech, Mohammad Saeed was intercepted by armed men on motorcycles and taken away. Mohammad Tahir was going home when he was abducted in a similar way.

No-one claimed responsibility for the kidnappings.

Published in Dawn, October 25th , 2014

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