LARKANA, Jan 1: Five people were kidnapped in a short span of 24 hours in different parts of Larkana, however, the police managed to recover two of them.

Some unidentified armed men in the early hours of Thursday kidnapped Mohammed Ali, Abdullah and Babar Khichi from Phull village, 5km off Larkana, while they were going to their farm.

As soon as the police received information it followed the kidnappers. The kidnappers let off Mohammed Ali and Abdullah and fled away with Babar Khichi.

In another incident, two villagers Zakaullah and Bachal Mayo were kidnapped in Gairelo village, 30km away from here.

The relatives of the kidnapped victims lost the footprints of the kidnappers on the outskirts of Laloo Rounk village where they staged a sit-in and demanded for an early recovery of the kidnapped victims.

The district police officer, Larkana, Irfan Baloch, told Dawn on Thursday that the police on receiving information followed the kidnappers and forced them to let off the victims. However, they managed to flee with Babar Khichi and the police had stepped up efforts for his safe recovery.

Responding to a question regarding Shoaib Shaikh, a petrol pump owner, Umar Mirjat, Abdul Ghafoor Brohi and Nimat Khuhro who had recently been kidnapped from different areas of Larkana district, he said police had got leads in all those cases.

He said that the police had arrested two kidnappers and one harbour but did not divulge their names.

The DPO hoped that all the kidnapped victims would be recovered soon as the police had tightened the noose around the culprits.

Commenting on the fresh wave of crimes in the district, he said that the criminals were out to pressurise him and added these criminals would not succeed in their designs.

He said that two gangs of dacoits had become active in the limits of Larkana district and he was confident that those gangs would be smashed soon.

Meanwhile, law and order situation has become worrisome in Qambar-Shahdadkot district. According to reports received on Thursday, outlaws had robbed three motorcycles from Qambar town and its outskirts. The robbers stopped Maqsood on the bypass road and deprived him of his bike at gunpoint.

On Dost Ali road, robbers snatched a motorcycle and mobile phone from Sadoro Shaikh while he was going to Qambar town.

In another incident, Jabbar Shaikh was deprived of his motorcycle in Shaikh mohalla in Qambar town.

On early Wednesday, a gang of unknown robbers blocked Indus Highway near Pakho village in the limits of Qambar-Shahdadkot district and deprived more than two dozens of locals of their valuables and cash and sped away.

Reports from Qambar said that the gangsters were active in the district. Within a fortnight they had reportedly killed a police head constable Zameer Chandio near Railway crossing in Qambar who had offered them resistance and Abbas Shaikh an employee of a tea company was shot dead while he was returning from Shahdadkot near Drib Jaro village.