BAHAWALPUR: The katcha gangs honeytrapped and kidnapped a man with cheap solar plates through a woman.

The victim was identified as Mukhtar Ahmed, who had a tuck shop at Mailsi Chowk, Kahrore Pucca, in district Lodhran.

The kidnappers posted a video of him online in which he could be seen in chains while pleading with his family to pay the amount demanded by his abductors. There are reports that an unidentified woman had been frequently visiting him at his shop. It is alleged that she motivated him to go to tehsil Sadigabad of district Rahim Yar Khan where solar plates were being sold at cheaper rates.

When he went to Sadigabad, he was kidnapped by the gangs.

Lodhran police said a kidnap case had been registered and they were trying to get Mukhtar released from the gangs.

TWO DROWN: Two minor friends drowned in the canal in Yazman on Monday.

In Yazman, two friends, deceased Abdullah (12), son of Muhammad Irfan, and Abdullah (9), son of MuhammadGhufran, residents of Chak 17/DNB, drowned in the 2-R Dera Nawab Sahib Branch Canal.

According to Rescue 1122, the boys went to the canal to take a bath. When they disappeared, a search was carried out and their parents found their clothes at the canal bank. The rescuers retrieved their bodies from the canal after over nine hours` efforts, about 13km far from the drowning site as the canal water was five feet deep and its flow was strong.

The other day, two minor children had drowned in the neighbouring Lodhran district.

TWO BOYS DIE: Two minor boys died in separate incidents in Hasilpur.

Eight-year-old Asad died when a temporary straw ceiling collapsed on him in his house at village Qaimpur.

Nine-year-old Fahad was going on a bicycle when he was hit by a tractor-trolley near Old Sabzi Mandi in Bahawalpur city. The unidentified tractor driver escaped from the scene and the police registered a case against him. Fahad`s body was shifted to the Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH).

ACID ATTACK: Sonia alias Salman, a transperson,sufferederiticalburnsinan acid attack at village MuhammadpurGhota in Qutabpur Police Station limits of district Lodhran.

According to police, the acid was allegedly thrown on the transgender by one Anees who had been forcing the victim for his friendship. On the victim`s refusal, he threw acid on her to take revenge. After the attack, the suspect managed to flee.

The police registered a case against the suspect and shifted him to Nishtar Hospital, Multan.

AIR-AMBULANCE: Two heart patients, Shafiq and Akhtar, of Haroonabad in the Bahawalnagar district were shifted by an air-ambulance to Lahore for treatment.

According to the rescue sources, the cardiac patients` had contacted the emergency officials concerned for shifting the patients by an air-ambulance to Lahore for their treatment as both of them were in serious condition.

DOG ATTACK: A seminary minor student was injured in an attack by a pet dog while going to his seminary at Bhudla Sunnat in Multan`s suburbs.

The injured, Muhammad Subhan, was shifted to hospital while police, on the complaint of his father, registered a case against the pet dog owner, identified as Ajmal.