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Police have seized the vehicle used in the kidnapping of businessman Issufo Satar in a suburb of Chimoio, Manica, in the centre of the country, but still have no indication as to the perpetrators, the corporation announced yesterday.
The car was found abandoned in a street about three kilometres south of place where the 44-year-old was abducted, just outside his commercial establishment in the centre of Chimoio.
“Individuals still to be identified forced the businessman into the vehicle at the door of his establishment, which he had just closed,” Manica police spokesman Mateus Mindu told a press conference.
“The police have intensified their operational lines with the National Criminal Investigation Service,” Mindu said, but so far without results.
Mindu called on family members never to cooperate with abductors over any possible ransom.
One of the security guards at the shop told AIM that the criminals were armed and threatened him and their victim.
“They were masked and carrying guns,” he said. “They threatened my employer and put him in the car. When I tried to intervene, they said they would shoot me,” the guard said. He was unable to remember how many people were in the kidnap gang.
“I don’t remember how many there were, because some of them stayed in the car,” he said. “It was very quick. It seems they had good information, because they arrived just as my employer was leaving the shop.”
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