KABUL, Apr 24 (NNN-ANA) – Afghan security forces set free an 11-year-old child, Abdul Raof Jan, from kidnappers’ clutch and facilitated him to reunite with his family, in the northern Mazar-i-Sharif yesterday.
Announcing the child’s release, Deputy Prime Minister, Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, told an audience that “criminal elements were behind the child’s abduction,” before the Taliban took power in Afghanistan last Aug.
The ill-fated child was abducted by unknown armed men from outside his school in Mazar-i-Sharif city about two years ago. However, the official didn’t say, if anyone had been arrested.
According to local media reports, Raof Jan’s kidnappers had demanded 1.5 million U.S. dollars in ransom for his release, but the boy’s father was unable to meet the requirement.
Kidnappers killed physician, Nadir Alami, after his family failed to pay 800,000 dollars in ransom, for his release, a few months ago.– NNN-ANA
