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Kidnap boy family denies inside job
he kidnap ordeal of a five-year-old British boy snatched by robbers in Pakistan has entered its third day as his family angrily denied that the incident was an "inside job".
Police in the Punjab region of the country are questioning several men over abduction of Sahil Saeed, from Oldham in Greater Manchester.
He was grabbed by gun and grenade-wielding raiders on Thursday from his grandmother's house, who are said to have demanded a £100,000 ransom.
The boy's mother Akila Naqqash and aunt Amrana Iftikhar spoke out after Wajid Shamsul Hasan, the Pakistani High Commissioner in the UK, said there was "a possibility of someone in the family having some sort of knowledge".
Breaking down in tears at the family home in Oldham, Ms Iftikhar said: "We are such a close family, no family member could do this to a child, not our family."
Ms Naqqash spoke of the growing frustration for relatives as they wait for news. She said: "We are getting no answers. How are they treating him? Is he eating? He is just a little boy, what has he done wrong?"
The raiders apparently subjected the family in Pakistan to a six-hour ordeal after breaking into the house in Jhelum.
Mr Hasan told GMTV that detectives were looking at the possibility of whether the kidnap was "a sort of inside job".
But speaking later on ITV News he appeared to distance himself from the comments, saying: "I did not say that it is an inside job done by the family, I said somebody nearby must have informed those criminals and they must be in league with them.
"For example we are suspecting the driver who brought them home or anybody relating to him could have done it. Although there have been leads, there have been arrests and the taxi driver has been arrested and he is being questioned and there are other leads also which tend to certain telephone calls."
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