SUKKUR, April 17: Nine employees of the Guddu and Och power plants were kidnapped by some unidentified armed men from the border area of Sindh and Balochistan on Friday night.

Report said that the line superintendents, Mohammad Naeem, Noor Mohammad, Waris, Atta Mohammad, Ghulam Rasool, Mohammad Anwer, Malik Amanullah, Shabbir Ahmed Shah and another were coming to Guddu from the Och Power Plant in a pickup (E5100) to repair some faulty transmission lines.

When they reached at the border of Sindh and Balochistan near Dera Murad Jamali, a group of the unidentified kidnappers intercepted their vehicle and kidnapped them with their pickup. There was no information about their whereabouts till Saturday evening.

According to official sources at Dera Murad Jamali, it is believed that the outlaws of Bugti tribe were involved in the kidnapping incident.—Correspondent