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Pakistani Taliban release abducted schoolboys unharmed
A group of schoolboys kidnapped by Pakistani Taliban militants have been released unharmed, police said on Thursday.
- Agencies
- Published: 11:50 November 6, 2008
Mingora: A group of schoolboys kidnapped by Pakistani Taliban militants have been released unharmed, police said on Thursday.
The boys aged 8 to 11 were kidnapped from outside their school on Tuesday on suspicion of spying for the security forces, police in Swat had said earlier.
But the Swat police chief Dilawar Bangash said on Thursday that seven schoolboys aged between 15 and 19, had been kidnapped and all had been released.
"Our earlier information was based on reports from sources and people in the area," Bangash said in Swat's main town of Mingora.
"Now we have confirmed reports that they were seven in number, all teenagers, and all have been returned to their homes."
Taliban confirmed that the schoolboys had been released after assurances from their parents that they would not get involved in any anti-militant activities.
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