Re: Gunmen kidnap at least 9 Christians in NW Pakistan
Abducted persons have been released.
PESHAWAR: The 16 Christian hostages, abducted from Peshawar, have been handed over to political authorities in Bara district here on Sunday.
These Christians were kidnapped from Academy Banarasabad (Peshawar) on Saturday, as they were on the way to join a religious carnival.
The Lashkar-e-Islam organization in Khyber Agency released captives to the political authorities however, the spokesman to Lashkar-e-Islam has denied the allegation of abduction saying that the local people had handed over these 16 Christians to them.