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Summary Three Pakistanis were arrested by Muscat police on the charges of abducting a compatriot.
Once the Bidbid police station received information about the kidnapping, and an investigation team was tasked with handling the technical research and investigation in tracking down the accused.The investigators were able to find out that the three kidnappers, along with the kidnapped, were hiding in Ghabra Dham village in the wilayat of Dimawa’Tayeen, an Omani news paper reported. The team raided the hideout yesterday morning with support from the Special Task Police and the Department of Investigation and rescued the kidnapped person. The three accused were also arrested in the raid. According to the police, the reason for the kidnapping was that the victim had promised to provide one of the accused and another Pakistani with three visas for OMR 1,140. But after having taken the money he ran away with it. The three accused later found him in his hideout at Lizagh village in Samaelwilayat. The victim was blindfolded, handcuffed with a rope and was held captive in a school which is still under construction.
