LARKANA, Sept 2: While police have found no clue to the whereabouts of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl, who went missing on Saturday, their families on Sunday began apprehending that they might have been kidnapped.

The families of the 15-year-old schoolboy, Nakhail, and 10-year-old student of a religious seminary, Sadaf Parveen Sangi, reside in two different parts of the city.

Nakhail, a Class IX student of Government Pilot Secondary School, had left home at around 11pm on Saturday, said his father Vijay Kumar who resides in Hamal Mohallah while speaking to Dawn on Sunday.

“We have informed the Dari police but so far no clue has been found to his whereabouts,” said Mr Kumar.

The boy’s grandfather, Mohan Lal, said that the boy had been missing since Saturday night and he feared that he had been abducted.

Sharing his findings, Lekhraj, the Mukhi of Hindu Panchayat, Larkana, said that the boy had borrowed Rs3,000 from Viskesh Kumar, a friend of his father running a savouries shop on Royal Road, telling him that his father asked for it.

Mr Lekhraj quoted police investigators as saying that Nakhail also sold his cellphone to a trader, Hallar Chandio, for Rs600.

“We have searched in the temples in Ghotki, Dahrki and Shikarpur but could not find him,” he said.

According to him, the family had recently moved from Badah town to a rented house in Larkana.

Resident of Hussaini Mohallah, Sadaf Parveen Sangi on Saturday morning went to a house in the neighbourhood for Darse Quran but did not return till late night, said her father, Arif Sangi. Mr Sangi, a carpenter, apprehended that she might have been kidnapped.

The area police were informed about the missing girl, he said. But they had not found any clue to her whereabouts, he added.

The police said that investigation into the two cases was under way.