HYDERABAD: Kidnapped brothers freed

Published October 10, 2006

HYDERABAD, Oct 9: Two minor brothers were freed from kidnappers and four people were arrested by the Jamshoro police in the civil hospital on Monday.

The young boys, five-year-old Hamza and eight-year-old Huzefa, were kidnapped on October 6, from near Madina Masjid in the Baldia police area when they were accompanying their aunt.

Their father Siraj Sheikh, who works in a bank, had approached Sindh PPO Jehangir Mirza to get the case investigated by Jamshoro DPO Pir Fareed Jan Sarhandi.

No formal FIR of the case had been registered as yet.

A telephone call of the kidnappers was monitered by Kotri police SHO Zulfikar Arain.

The kidnappers had demanded payment of Rs500,000 as ransom to be delivered to them in the kidney ward of the civil hospital.

They asked the family that money should be delivered to them by the woman who was accompanying the children at the time of kidnapping.

Police sources said that kidnappers wanted the ransom mony to be kept at place in the ward designated by them, with two packets of biscuits placed over at the hospital’s.

The woman, wife of Imran Memon, the cousin of boys’ mother, arrived in hospital along with money.

One of the kidnappers, who was later identified as Faisal, received money and left for his flat located in Agriculture complex on the Fatima Jinnah road to hand over the of boys to the woman.

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