LAHORE: The alleged kidnappers of a child who received the ransom of Rs1.5 million from the child?s family and later murdered the boy have been killed in a police encounter.
According to police, the kidnappers identified as Rehan and Suhail were killed in police encounter while the ransom money was also recovered.
The accused had worked as servants in Umair Irfan?s house, Geo News correspondent said. They kidnapped the child and took him to Sahiwal and demanded Rs1.5 million from the family on a phone call made from a cell phone.
Although the kidnappers received the ransom money, they brutally killed the child later on.
The police traced the culprits through cell phone number and surrounded their house. Upon this, the accused opened fire on police which was returned, killing both the accused identified as Rehan and Suhail. The police also recovered the ransom money.
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