MIRAMSHAH, July 4: Five music shops were burnt in Miramshah Bazaar on Tuesday night while unidentified men kidnapped a manager of a bank from Bannu Frontier Region adjacent to the North Waziristan Agency on Tuesday.

Local people said that unidentified men sprinkled petrol over the shops at the main bazaar and set them on fire. All shops were gutted.

Militants had warned cassettes and CD shop owners in the restive agency to wind up their businesses or face consequences.

Meanwhile, some unidentified gunmen abducted a manager of the National Bank, Mirali branch, when he was travelling in a passenger coach in Gurbez area of the Bannu Frontier Region.

Officials said that Hamayetullah was on his way to Bannu from Mirali when some gunmen stopped the passenger coach and kidnapped him. He was taken to some unknown place.—Correspondent