Schoolboy kidnapped

Published September 21, 2007

LAKKI MARWAT, Sept 20: Armed men kidnapped a schoolboy near Kotka Shah Jehan on Thursday.

Adnan, a student of the Suffa Public School in Serai Naurang, was going to his village from the school in a rickshaw. Eyewitnesses said the armed men intercepted the rickshaw near Kotka Shah Jehan, put the boy in a white car and drove away.

An official at the Serai Naurang police station said that police had started combing the area to trace the boy. He said that so far no relative of the kidnapped boy had approached police for the registration of FIR.

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