Abducted student rescued in Ashulia

Police rescued a youth from Gazipur's Kaliakoir jungle yesterday noon, one day after his abduction. 

The victim is Jahangir Alam, 20, a third-year student of Gaibandha Government College. He was looking for job some days from his sister's home of Buribazar in Ashulia. 

Mohsin-ul-Qadir, officer-in-charge of Ashulia Police Station said Jahangir was abducted at gunpoint from Sreepur village of Asulia on Wednesday noon.

The kidnappers demanded Tk 1 lakh as ransom from Jahangir whose family sent Tk 4,000 to their mobile phones' bKash accounts and informed police about the abduction, said family sources.

Police raided the area through mobile tracking system with the assistance of the victim's family.

Sensing the presence of police, kidnappers fled the spot, leaving him critically injured.

Later, police rescued him from there, but could not arrest the abductors.