Balochistan Frontier Corps (FC) recovered two hostages after an encounter with miscreants, whilst a kidnapper was arrested by the personnel on Saturday.
Informing about the details of the operation, Colonel Faraz Hafeez said that the FC troops when miscreants hiding in bushes opened fire at them. Resultantly, a brief exchange of fire took place which resulted in injuring a miscreant and arresting another. The incident took place in Pat Feeder area of Dera Murad Jamali.
“FC personnel recovered two hostages namely Ghulam Rasool and Zahoor Ahmed from the miscreants, who informed that the kidnappers abducted them while they were on the way back home from Thal,” the colonel said.
Officials also recovered a huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosives from the culprits and told that the arrested accused was involved in crimes including kidnapping for ransom and train attacks.