SUKKUR: The Christian community on Thursday took out a procession and staged a sit-in at the Rohri section of the National Highway in protest against kidnapping of their two young members a day earlier.

Residents of New Yard Christian Colony, Rohri, took out the procession from the neighbourhood raising slogans against the area police for failing to discharge their duties efficiently. The participants marched up to the Berri Chowk, where they held a sit-in disrupting movement of vehicular traffic on the National Highway for some time.

They burnt tyres in the middle of the thoroughfare and raised slogans against the police.

Speaking to the media, they said that kidnappers took away two-year-old Christy and two-year-old Salman Raja, the daughter and grandson of Sahdoo Masih as soon as the children come out of their house in the colony on Wednesday morning.

They alleged that the Rohri police were not extending any assistance to the community in the recovery of the children.

They urged the higher authorities to look into the matter.

Rohri SHO Iqbal Domki Berri Chowk and held out the assurance that the police would do their utmost to locate the children. He persuaded the protesters to disperse peacefully.