British boy kidnapped in Pakistan for £100,000 ransom

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Source: BBC

British boy kidnapped in Pakistan for £100,000 ransom

A five-year-old British boy has been kidnapped by robbers in Pakistan, local police have said.

Sahil Saeed, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was taken from Jhelum where his family were on holiday.

Robbers broke into where they were staying, in the Punjab area, on Wednesday night and demanded a ransom of about £100,000.

The British High Commission is in touch with his family and local authorities have launched an investigation.

George Sherriff, a spokesman for the commission in Islamabad, said they were "continually monitoring the situation".




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1. Two arrested over boy kidnapped in Pakistan

Two people "very close" to the men suspected of kidnapping a British boy at gunpoint in Pakistan have been arrested, the BBC has learned.

A police source in Punjab province said they were confident five-year-old Sahil Saeed would be freed within 24 hours.
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Meanwhile, the Foreign Office confirmed that one man had been arrested and was being questioned in connection with the kidnapping.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8550668.stm