 MULTAN: All 22 passengers on a boat in the Indus River were released safely after the boat was briefly hijacked on Sunday. Unidentified men hijacked the boat travelling from Lundi Pitafi in Muzaffargarh to Jampur through the Indus River. Rai Tahir, the Muzaffargarh district police officer, said that the hijackers freed women and children. A police team was later dispatched to free the remaining passengers. The police team chased the boat and engaged them at the river bank in Rustam Leghari area, some 18 kilometres off Jampur, APP reported. The hijackers released the fled. |