According to the district police officer (DPO), seven police officers who were abducted from the Bannu area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa one day ago were safely returned on Tuesday.
Earlier Monday night, police officers from the Rocha Check Post in the Wazir subdivision of the Bannu district were abducted by unidentified armed men.
The police received all seven persons, Bannu DPO Ziauddin Ahmad told Dawn.com today.
DPO Ahmad went on to say that police search activities and the application of pressure by local elders contributed to the police officers’ safe and sound return from the same location where they were abducted.
An official had earlier told Dawn that during the incident, armed militants surrounded the checkpost, forced their way inside, and grabbed the police officers stationed there as hostages at gunpoint.
The official had claimed, “They also stole official rifles from the policemen.”
After the event, a sizable police presence arrived on the scene and began a search for the officials who had been abducted in the isolated, hilly location.
The Rocha Check Post is situated in Bannu district, inside the boundaries of Otmanzai police station, near the border with North Waziristan.
Attacks against security troops, other law enforcement organizations, and security checkpoints have increased significantly in recent years, especially in Balochistan and KP.
On November 15, a predawn terrorist attack on a checkpoint on a mountain in the Johan neighborhood of Kalat, Balochistan, resulted in the martyrdom of seven security personnel and the wounding of eighteen others.
