NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Security forces on Saturday conducted an operation to rescue four employees of an oil and gas exploration company in the Miramshah tehsil of North Waziristan tribal district, killing two kidnappers and injuring another two.
Unknown persons had kidnapped the employees of Marri Petroleum on Friday night.
“The four abducted employees [of Marri Petroleum] have been recovered. Two of their kidnappers have been killed and two injured during the operation,” a senior police official was quoted as saying in Dawn, adding that a soldier also sustained injuries during the operation.
Four officials of the oil and gas exploration company had been kidnapped from Anghar village on the outskirts of Miramshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan. The employees, including Faisal Raza, Mohammad Ejaz, Sagheer and Maqbool, were conducting a survey in the area. They were kidnapped by unidentified people while returning to their base late on Friday.
Four employees of the oil and gas exploration business had been abducted from the village of Anghar, which lies on the outskirts of Miramshah, North Waziristan’s capital. Faisal Raza, Mohammad Ejaz, Sagheer, and Maqbool were among the staff members doing a survey in the vicinity. On Friday night while they were making their way back to their base, they were abducted by unknown individuals.
