SUKKUR, Jan 27: Four cattle traders of Thull were kidnapped by unknown armed persons from Natal in district Jafferabad, Balochistan.

They were coming to Thull from Quetta on Wednesday.

Muhammad Nawaz Mahar, Ali Nawaz Mahar, Allah Wasayo Mahar and Abdul Rasheed Magsi were travelling in a pickup. When they reached Nautal, a gang of armed men intercepted the vehicle and kidnapped them.

Relatives of the kidnapped persons held a demonstration and staged a sit-in in Thull and blocked the road in protest against their kidnapping. They were demanding of the higher authorities concerned to order immediate recovery of the kidnapped persons.

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