SUKKUR: Ghotki police on Thursday claimed to have recovered two police officials, who were kidnapped a day ago by dacoits, and arrested eight suspects during a joint operation in Aandal Sundrani riverine area in Ghotki district.

On Wednesday, gangs of dacoits attacked a police check-post, killed a policeman Shah Ali Sial and kidnapped two police officials Qaisar Kalhoro and Mohammad Khan Gabol.

Ghotki SSP Sumair Noor Channa led a joint force mounted on armoured personnel carriers, which leveled and torched several hideouts used by dacoits.

Police officials said that sensing danger the dacoits retreated from the area and abandoned the kidnapped police officials behind. Police had also arrested eight suspects, they said.

They had rescued their colleagues unharmed with their officials weapons from the clutches of dacoits and shifted them to police station, they said. Sources said that the dacoits released the kidnapped policemen on the intervention of influential persons who were pressured by police to get their colleagues freed.

Published in Dawn, April 26th, 2024