HARIPUR: A teenage girl was kidnapped at gunpoint from a CNG station on GT Road here on Tuesday afternoon.

Police quoted a girl from Kehal, Abbottabad, as saying that she and her sister (19) were in a car that stopped for refuelling at the CNG station near Mohallah Tainki, Haripur, when all of a sudden about eight persons, including two women armed with weapons, came and forcibly kidnapped her sister.

The complainant reported to the police that the accused included Ruqayya Bibi, Gudo Bibi, Qaisar Khan, Shazi Khan, Shahbaz Basharat, Muzamil Shah and Husnain Shah.

The police registered a criminal case against the accused person under Section 365-B/34 of the PPC and have started raids for their arrest.

Published in Dawn, January 31st, 2018

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