GARHI YASEEN:Bandits have kidnapped a laborer near Garhi Yaseen town and demanded a ransom of Rs3 million for his release, heirs said Sunday.

Nadir Shar, the uncle of the kidnapped person, said that the laborer, Israr Shar, a resident of Nangar Shar village, district Shikarpur, went missing while going to Sukkur for labor work but there was no clue to his whereabouts so far.

He said that they had received calls from the kidnapped laborer’s mobile phone by the bandits who demanded Rs3 million ransom for his release. The parents have lodged a report with a local police station for recovery of the kidnapped laborer but there was no progress yet. They appealed to the IGP Sindh police and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to help in the recovery of the youth from the clutches of the bandits.