QUETTA: Two days after the Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan and Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Quetta announced a search operation, 18 abducted persons have been recovered, out of which 16 are reported to be foreigners.
The search operation was carried out on the outskirts of Kech (Turbat) where the abducted people were held. The persons were trying to illegally enter Europe, and amidst their trip, were kidnapped and abducted
Balochistan’s Frontier Corps (FC) carried out the operation with the help of other institutional organisations. All 18 persons were recovered from a single house in the region which also had a huge cache of weapons. All weapons found were seized immediately.
From the recovered, 15 are Nigerian nationals, one from Yemen and two Pakistanis. The two Pakistanis are Shujauddin from Lahore and Ghulam Hussain from Karachi. During the raids, two suspects were also arrested.
The recovered persons were transported to Turbat, and the arrested personnel are also going to be transported there for further interrogation and investigation on whether they have connections with the dead bodies recovered earlier.
The 20 people who have died in Turbat were all from Punjab.
FC Sector Commander Tassawur Sattar and DIG Abdul Razzaq Cheema told reporters that a door-to-door search operation had been launched to apprehend militants after taking local leaders into confidence.
According to them, about 277 police and 799 FC personnel, including female officials, would be taking part in the day-long hunt. The security officials had brought along gifts for children while medical camps have been installed for any untoward incident, they added.
The banned Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), headed by Allah Nazar Baloch, claimed responsibility for the killings of the 15 men from Punjab, ‘supposedly’ aspiring to enter Europe illegall Source y.
