KHAIRPUR, March 2 Four people, including a policeman, were reportedly kidnapped near Khuhra Minor-5 Gambat on Sunday night.

Reports said that Manthar Ali Kalhoro and his father Ali Gohar Kalhoro, Mohammad Din Maitlo and Mumtaz Maitlo were going to their villages 10 armed men kidnapped them near Minor No-5. Later, they released Ali Gohar due to his old age. In another incident, ASI Ghulam Sarwar Ujjan went missing when he was going from Khuhra to Pir Esso village on a motorcycle the same night.—BoC

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