The kidnappers trapped the victims by speaking to them on the phone in a “sexy female voice and through SMS messages”, according to the three men. All three were called to meet them at the same location on the same night when they were abducted.
Soomro, Ali and Chishti said that the abductors removed their clothes and gave them old ones to wear and continually kept on changing their location. They were given two rotis every 24 hours and were forced to drink floodwater. “We were beaten regularly and blindfolded for entire days on end,” said Sajid Ali. The kidnappers would ask us to call our families and ask them to send us a certain amount of credit to their mobile phones. “If they sent less credit than they asked for, we went without food,” said Soomro. The kidnappers demanded Rs6million for their release. The three men escaped in the middle of the night on Friday. “Our kidnappers were searching for us. We could hear aerial firing,” said one victim.
A villager helped them escape and informed Kamu Wala chowki in charge Sanwal Khanwara, Karim Bukhsh after which district police officer (DPO) Aubado Syed Qalb Abbas along with police officials reached the place and took the abductees to the police station. Abbas and Sanwal said that everyday several people were trapped by kidnappers pretending to be women.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 10th, 2010.
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