RAWALPINDI, Jan 4: The eight-year-old son of a businessman, who was kidnapped for Rs20 million ransom, was released by the kidnappers after getting Rs15 million ransom, police said.

Bilal Zubair, son of Sheikh Zubair, a resident of A Block in Satellite Town, was going to a park along with a watchman in Sadiqabad on December 26, when the unidentified kidnappers riding a car intercepted them and took away the boy.

On the following day, the parents of the boy received telephone calls from the abductors who demanded Rs20 million ransom for the safe release of the boy. They threatened to kill the boy in case they involved the police.

After negotiation between the parents of the boy and the kidnappers, the abductors agreed on Rs15 million for the safe release of the boy. The kidnappers directed the parents to drop the ransom near a garbage den in Morgah and get back their son from Saddar. The boy was released two days after the kidnapping.

Earlier, the parents of the boy were reluctant to lodge a case with the police but later they contacted the Sadiqabad police who registered an FIR on Wednesday.

Two killed: Two persons were killed in separate road accidents in Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Thursday, police said.

Mohammad Sadiq was going along with his son Qadeer Khan on a bicycle in Tarnol area when a passenger coach hit them. As a result, Sadiq died on the spot while his son was injured. In another incident, an aged woman was killed after being run over by a passenger bus on GT road near Golra.

The unidentified woman was crossing the road when the bus coming from Peshawar hit her. The body was shifted to Pims for autopsy.— Staff Reporter