The 30-year-old Indian businessman, Umpakan Chodri who was kidnapped by unknown persons in Kumasi in the Ashanti Regional on Thursday afternoon has been rescued.
According to graphiconline, he is said to have managed to escape at dawn on Friday after he was abducted on Thursday afternoon by some gunmen in Kumasi.
According to some eyewitnesses, Umpakan Chodri was forcibly taken and pushed inside a vehicle around Ahodwo, a suburb of Kumasi, late Thursday afternoon.
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The witnesses told the victim’s brother, Tamil Kumar, that the kidnappers, numbering about three, first tapped on Umpakan Chodri’s vehicle that he had a flat tyre.
When he got out of his vehicle to check the tyre, the kidnappers rushed on him, pulled a gun, slapped him in the face before pushing him into a vehicle and sped off.
The kidnappers reportedly did not take anything from Umpakan’s vehicle, Tamil said.
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