LAKKI MARWAT: Two girls kidnapped

Published January 18, 2007

LAKKI MARWAT, Jan 17: Two girls were kidnapped in the Lakki Marwat police station area, said the police on Wednesday.

According to police, schoolteacher Mehmood Khan and Mohammad Zaman abducted Khalida, a student of class eight in the Government Girls High School-I, while she was returning home from school along with her sister Nazmeena.

In the second incident, Naimatullah, Rehmatullah, Bilal, Syed Ahmad and Wali Khan entered the house of Mr Zulfiqar in the Wanda Nizami village and kidnapped his daughter at gunpoint. They also took away a shotgun, gold ornaments and Rs50,000 in cash, said police quoting an FIR lodged by complainant Mr Zulfiqar.

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