Child released soon after kidnapping

NOWSHERA: Unidentified abductors abducted a child and later abandoned him at the Railway Chowk in Nowshera Cantt on Tuesday.

Umar Noor, a resident of Naeem Building, RA Bazar, told reporters that he was going to a seminary to receive religious education when three persons travelling in a pick-up van grabbed him near Kashtti Bridge and bundled him into their vehicle.

He said that the abductors were torturing him and demanding the mobile phone numbers of their mother and father.However, he said that the abductors abandoned him at the Railway Chowk when they came to know that he was an orphan and his family was also poor.