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Bugti tribesmen hold 10 highway travellers hostage
MULTAN: Bugti tribesmen held 10 passengers hostage after taking over a van and a car travelling from the Indus Highway to Karachi on Thursday.
| "Yar! We be highwaymen! Yer money or yer life! As fer you, me pretty..." |
As many as 18 tribesmen kidnapped 22 passengers and forcibly took a van and a car travelling on the Indus Highway. Later they released 11 women and a man, said Rajanpurâs DPO, Chaudhry Munir Ahmed. He said when police arrived the tribesmen began opening fire at them. A one-hour shootout ensued in which a tribesman was shot dead and two others were injured.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-05-31 |
