LARKANA, July 12: The police on Monday arrested two persons who after kidnapping children used to sell them for their subsequent trafficking to the United Arab Emirates.

Talking to newsmen on Monday, ASP city Mushtaque Bhutta said that following the kidnapping of a boy, Ayaz Umrani, 8, on July 9, the police was in a hunt against the accused. He said that in a raid the boy was recovered and kidnapper, Ghulam Haider Umrani, arrested.

Another accused, Ghulam Qadir Mugiri, was arrested on the pointation of Haider Umrani. The ASP said that they had kept the boy in a room constructed underneath a water tank in the old grain market area of the city. Two pistols were also recovered from them, he added.

The accused told newsmen that they were kidnapping children for the last three years and had developed connections with a dacoit Allah Dino Kalhoro in kutcha area whom they had been selling boys in eight to ten thousand rupees.

Allah Dino is wanted by police in many cases including trafficking of kidnapped boys to Abu Dhabi. The children are trained and used in camel races, the kidnappers confessed. They said that so far they had kidnapped four children and sold out to the dacoit.

They disclosed to the police that two more gangs of child lifters were engaged in the district. The ASP said that during interrogation outlaws told more names of criminals but it was immature to open their identity now as they could go underground. The boy was handed over to the parents.