Islamabad, April 29, IRNA - Police in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta Sunday found body of a missing British employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who was kidnapped in January, local media reported.

Dr Khalil Ahmed Dale, a Yemen-born British national, was kidnapped by a group of armed men.



Local media reported that the unidentified gunmen had demanded ransom for the release of the ICRC employee but the committee had refused to pay.



TV channels reported that the body was packed in a bag and was placed along a road in the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan.



Reports said that the body was cut into pieces. The police shifted the body to a local hospital for postmortem, sources said.



Dale was a converted British Muslim and had been working in Quetta with the ICRC for a year, according to police.



The kidnapping incidents for ransom have been increased in Balochistan, residents said. Suspected militants are also blamed for abduction to raise funds for their activities, police said. A group of locals have set up a camp in the main square of Quetta to collect donations to pay ransom to get released their family members from the militants.



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