Kidnapped Anti-Polio Team Freed in FR Tank

05/01/2014

TANK: The kidnappers set free the six employees of the World Health Organisation who had been kidnapped from the Pang area on February 17, an official said on Wednesday.
 
Assistant Political Agent, Frontier Region Tank, Nasir Khan, told reporters that the anti-polio team, including Dr Khandad, in-charge of the Union Council Siddiqullah, driver Kalim, three Levies personnel — Lance Naik Daulat Khan, Sepoy Amanullah and Sepoy Minhas — had left for the Pang area at 8 am to administer the anti-polio drops to children when they were kidnapped on February 17.
 
He said the political administration arrested eight tribesmen belonging to the Wraspon clan of the Bhittani tribe and impounded their vehicles. The administration also withheld the salaries and privileges of the tribe under the collective responsibility section of the Frontier Crimes Regulation, he added.
 
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