- Victim abducted at gunpoint outside Islamabad residence.
- Main suspect, female accomplice arrested from Swat.
- The police find the vehicle used in the kidnapping incident.
ISLAMABAD: The body of a young man who was abducted from Islamabad’s F-6 area has been recovered from Mardan, police said on Tuesday, adding that the victim appeared to have been subjected to torture.
According to the police, the body was shifted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), where an autopsy is scheduled to be conducted.
The deceased was identified by his family as 30-year-old Farrukh Afzal. His family claimed he was abducted in front of his father, adding that the kidnappers opened fire when they tried to resist.
speaks to Pakinomist newsa relative of the victim said that when Afzal arrived home late in the evening around 12:04 and was about to get out of his car, just then, three people tried to kidnap him.
“A neighbor called [police]and his parents came out of their house after hearing his screams but the armed kidnappers took him away,” he said, claiming that the boy could have been saved if the police had intervened at that time and placed blockades.
“However, no action was taken which is why such an incident took place in the safe city of Islamabad, especially in a place like F-6/1 which is close to the red zone,” he said, raising the question of how armed people can abduct a boy in Islamabad and kill him in Mardan.
Meanwhile, police said, the abduction took place when the victim was on his way home and opened the gate of his house in Islamabad’s F-6/1 area, where four gunmen forcibly took him away in a vehicle after firing shots.
A first information report (FIR) was registered at Kohsar police station on the complaint of the victim’s father.
According to the FIR, the complainant rushed outside after hearing noise around midnight and saw four to five unidentified persons abducting his son. When he and his neighbors tried to intervene, the suspects opened fire and fled with the victim.
Police said the prime suspect, along with a female accomplice, were arrested in Swat, while the vehicle used in the kidnapping has also been recovered.
Authorities said the investigation is ongoing from multiple angles and efforts are underway to track down other suspects involved in the incident.
