KHAIRPUR, Dec 6: Two kidnapped men reached their homes on Thursday morning after three months of disappearance.

Mushtaq Ujjan and Ghulam Sarwar were kidnapped by dacoits when they were working at their agricultural land on Sept 8, near Saddar Ji Bhatiyoon area in the jurisdiction of Abdul Rehman Unnar police station.

The DPO Khairpur told reporters on Thursday that both the villagers had been freed after police ‘pressurised’ the dacoits.

He said a notorious dacoit, Ameer Shah, was involved in the kidnapping.

Meanwhile, a man and a lady health worker were killed in two separate robbery incidents.

Reports said that lady health worker Gulzaran Khatoon Abbasi was on her way back from Sukkur to her native town Khuhra late on Wednesday with her family when some armed men tried to stop their car driven by her nephew.

The lady health worker and the family members offered resistance; the armed men opened fire as a result of which she got injured. The woman died on her way to hospital.

In another incident, some armed dacoits entered into the house of Zohaib Soomro, 22, in Babarloi town. When Zohaib offered resistance the dacoits opened fire and killed him.

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