FIA officials kidnapped

Published May 20, 2008

SHIKARPUR, May 19: Two FIA officials were kidnapped from Garhi Yasin-Ratodero road in the Dakhan area on Monday, the area police said.

According to Dakhan police, FIA inspectors Zafar Ahmed Baloch and Nisar Ahmed Sawand were going to Sukkur from Larkana in a car. A group of armed men intercepted the car and hijacked it with the two officials.

No FIR was registered till the filing of this report.

Meanwhile, Naparkot police arrested two oil thieves while they were stealing petrol from Parco pipeline.

According to the police, they caught Jamaluddin and Ayoub red handed an impounded an oil tanker they were using in the crime.

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