Kabul police on Saturday night rescued a teenager who had been held hostage in Kabul for 10 days after being kidnapped in PD11.
Kabul police said they carried out a couple of operations in search of the teenager and managed to find the boy, Esa, in a house in PD5 on Saturday night. Eight men were arrested in connection with the crime.
The suspects were however picked up in different locations around the city, police said.
“Eight people have been arrested and our investigations are ongoing. We arrested these men in different operations,” the head of Kabul’s criminal investigations unit Salem Almas said.
Esa is a Grade 8 student and was kidnapped while on his way to school earlier this month.
“He (the kidnapper) covered my mouth with his hand and dragged me into a car. They put me on the back seat and beat me and then put me in a sack,” said Esa.
Esa’s family has meanwhile called on government to ensure the kidnappers are brought to justice and said government needs to take steps to end the trend of kidnapping.
“They should be executed in public, (if government does this), there won’t be such kidnappings, and a mother would not suffer anymore because of her boy,” said Esa’s mother.
The kidnappers had demanded a $1 million USD ransom.
The boy had meanwhile been held in the basement of a house before being rescued by police.
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