Dua Mangi returns home safely: family

A week after being kidnapped from Karachi's upscale neighbourhood at gunpoint, 20-year-old female student Dua Mangi, a law student, has safely reached her home, according to her family.

Ms Mangi reached her home Friday night, is stated to be fine. Her family members, however, declined to disclose further details about how she got back home.

Dua Mangi's family has decided to not say much on a possible ransom being paid for the recovery of their daughter but have asked media and those concerned to respect their privacy.

However, sources claimed that Dua Mangi was released after being paid off 2 million rupees to the abductors.

Dua Mangi was kidnapped from near a restaurant in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) last Saturday. The kidnappers had also shot and injured her friend Haris Fatah when he put up resistance in the jurisdiction of Darakshan police station.

Ms Mangi and her friend, Haris, were strolling along the road in DHA's Bukhari Commercial area when unidentified armed men in a car intercepted them and took away the girl after shooting and injuring her friend.

Police had lodged an FIR, naming at least four unidentified men, over Dua's abduction and injuring Soomro. Law enforcement officials had said the men who had kidnapped Dua from the metropolis' upscale, had used a car that was reported stolen from the city's PECHS area.

Sources in the police's investigative team said the car seen in the closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera footage was exactly the same one used to abduct Dua.

As reported earlier, the car used for the abduction was in fact stolen from the populace Tariq Road area of Karachi. The car which was speculated to be involved as the vehicle used to undertake the deed was indeed the one that was stolen a few days prior.-Agencies