HARIPUR, June 14: The body of an Afghan student of a seminary was found in village Gehr Khan here on Tuesday. Police said that the teenager was also sexually assaulted before being killed.

Razi Mohammad Khan, an Afghan national living in a rented house at village Chohar, told police that his son Abdul Khaliq, 13, left house for seminary on Monday but did not return.

He said that he was informed in the evening that the body of his son was lying in the mortuary of Women and Children Hospital. He, however, did not nominate anyone in the FIR and said that he had no enmity.

Police said that condition of the body suggested that victim was sexually assaulted before being strangled to death.

Meanwhile, a man was kidnapped from a village of Ghazi tehsil on Monday evening. Family sources said that Sadaqat Ali of village Triman was standing outside his house when some unidentified persons disembarked from a motorcar, bearing number plate of Islamabad police, and forcibly took him away with them.

Akhtar Nawaz, a parental uncle of the victim, said that kidnappers had informed them that Sadaqat Ali was in their captivity. The kidnappers demanded Rs20 million for his release, he added. The kidnappers also threatened to kill him if their demand was not met.

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