BAHAWALNAGAR: District police claimed on Tuesday to have recovered two sisters who had been allegedly abducted on their way home from school a day ago in Chishtian.

The first information report (FIR) registered on the complaint of the victims’ mother, Yasmeen Bibi, a resident of Chak 3, said 13-year-old Robia Abbas, a student of class VI and six-year-old Aisha, a kindergarten student, were studying at the Government Girls School Chak 3 Fordwah.

On Monday, the sisters were returning home from school at about 12pm when six people intercepted them and forcibly made them sit on their motorcycles and kidnapped them.

Talking to Dawn, DPO’s spokesperson Adnan Ali claimed that police had safely recovered the girls and raids were being conducted to arrest the kidnappers.

Published in Dawn, June 7th, 2023

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