LAKKI MARWAT: Since mine-owners refused to pay the demanded extortion money, Fitna al-Khawarij abducted 17 miners at gunpoint from Dara Tang Road here on Thursday (9th Jan, 2025).
According to details 17 miners (including a driver), working for a mining company, were taken hostage by TTP militants when they were travelling onboard a minibus. As the result of an operation carried out by Cops and other LEA personnel, 8 of the kidnapped workers were rescued after a shoot out due to which three received minor injuries.
The operation is underway to recover the remaining 9 workers from the captivity of TTP militants who had released videos showing them pleading the government to arrange for the ransom money otherwise the militants would kill them. It is pertinent to mention here that the miscreants torched the company vehicle while bolting with kidnapped.
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