The road links Dera Ismail Khan with Sahiwal.
The militants stopped a passenger bus and a vehicle belonging to Chashma Sugar Mills.They ordered eight workers of the sugar mills, identified as Shahzad, Irshad, Kashif, Shafqat, Arsalan, Alamdar, Shabbir and Majid, to get down from the vehicle.
The workers were forced into the militants' pickup truck and taken to an unknown location.
Police said the attackers had more than one pickup and several motorcycles, which were used during the incident.The driver of the sugar mills vehicle, Samar Jan, recorded his statement with police.
He stated that the armed men also took away employees working at a fuel plant and other development projects in the area.
The list of additional abductees includes Rahmatullah, Akram, Wahidullah, Muhammad Bilal, Muhammad Numan, Abdul Rashid, Muhammad Iftikhar and Jaleel.
In total, 17 people were kidnapped, eight from sugar mills and nine others associated with different projects.The First Information Report (FIR) cites Section 365 (kidnapping or abduction with intent to secretly and wrongfully confine a person), Section 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapon) and Section 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Pakistan Penal Code, along with Section 7 of….
The case has been registered against the TTP militants and investigation has formally begun.Police sources said teams are examining all aspects of the incident under the nominated sections of law.
CTD books TTP over abduction of 17 Ramzan Seemab | Updated 9 minutes ago | Terrorists seized eight mill workers, nine project employees.

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