QUETTA: At least 10 labourers working on the Dera Bugti-Sui road were abducted by a group of armed men near Sui during the early hours of Thursday.
The District Police Officer Dera Bugti confirmed the kidnapping, adding that police and security forces have mounted a manhunt in the area for the safe recovery of the labourers.
The labourers were sitting in tents pitched beside the road under construction near Sui when a group of armed men abducted ten of them at gun point.
“A few labourers were left behind as they were sitting inside another tent,” official sources said.
There were eight Sindhi-speaking labourers belonging to Sadiqabad, one from Quetta and one local Bugti tribesman.
The security forces and police initiated a search operation in the area on Thursday morning but were clueless about the whereabouts of the kidnapped people.
Local sources, however, put the figure to 13. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
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Tens of thousands of balochs have been picked up by punjab army, thousands of balochs are found mudered for just being balochs, hundreds of our women are raped but ten punjabis kidnapped and media makes it a big news. The people commenting about being innocent punjabis should know balochs kidnapped are also innocent if you dont believe me then why is supreme court asking the army for reports regarding missing people.
It makes no difference whether they were Sindhis or Punjabis. They were just poor innocent people at work. Shame on these abductors who call themselves freedom fighters. They are worst than crmininals.
@Mustafa Khosa:
But they were sindhi speaking and that is important.
The laborers were from Sadiqabad which is in punjab not sindh.
This is unacceptable.
What is the army doing there , if it can't provide basic law and order?
govt is doing nothing to finish BLA and whats more frustrating is that our own media is replicating these terrorists and ppl who is seeking their rights lol.no wonder Pakistan is such a mess where we cannot distinguish among bad n good. Killing Bhuggti was not enough, he should had completely finished BLA that time ...now they have re gathered and got the perfect incompetent Govt(PPP) to prosperous and they are doing just that.