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KHAIRPUR, Sept 7: Three banana growers, Irshad Ali, Gulshan and Maula Bukhsh were kidnapped in the jurisdiction of the Faiz Mohammad Bindo police near here on Saturday.
They were going from their fields to Faiz Mohammad Phulpoto village when some armed men kidnapped them.
The villagers and the police followed the footsteps of kidnappers which led to the Bagerji forest.
BODY RECOVERED: The body of a boy was recovered from a deserted room in Rasoolabad town on Sunday.
The body was identified to be that of Raqeeb Ahmed, 4, son of Abdul Aziz Memon, who was missing for last four days.
The boy was strangulated to death and his body stuffed in a sack.
The relatives of the killed boy blocked the Rasoolabad-Mehrabpur road and demanded early arrest of the culprits.
INJURED: The owners of a sweat meat shop, Arz Mohammad Rajpar and Bhutto, were injured in firing by four person in Bozdar Wada on Saturday.
CANAL BREACHED: About ten houses were inundated when the Faiz Wah sub-canal developed a 100-foot-wide breach near the RD 56-57 near here on Friday.
Cotton, sugarcane, maze and other crops over 200 acres of land were also submerged.
The breach was plugged on Saturday by the villagers on self-help basis. A 70-foot-wide breach had occurred at the same place about two months ago.
ACQUITTED: The second additional sessions judge, Faheem Ahmed Siddiqui, here the other day acquitted Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz chief Bashir Qureshi and 149 others in the Babarloi sit-in case.
The JSQM leader and other accused were present in the court.
The Ranipur and Kot Diji police had registered two separate cases against 150 persons on June 10, 2002 when the JSQM activists were going to stage a sit-in at the Babarloi bypass against the construction of Kalabagh dam and Thal canal.
