KHUZDAR: The Levies Force got a 12-year-old boy freed and arrested two kidnappers from Mastung area on Thursday.

Levies officials said that Zahoor, son of Mohammad Aslam Bangulzai, was recovered from Noza area of Mastung district after an exchange of fire with the kidnappers.

Zahoor was kidnapped from Killi Sheikhan village on Feb 12 when he was returning home from school, they said. The kidnappers had demanded Rs300,000 in ransom for his release.

Quetta police chief Abdul Razzaq Cheema told a press conference that the boy was recovered during a raid conducted on a house on the information that a kidnap­ped doctor, Ameer Bakhsh, had been kept there.

The doctor was not found in the house, the officer said, adding he might have been shifted to some other place.

“Police and other law-enforcement agencies are conducting raids in different areas to trace the doctor,” he said and expressed the hope that he would be found soon.

Published in Dawn, July 3rd, 2015

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