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Indians freed in Russia

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW APRIL 22. A criminal ring specialising in trafficking illegal migrants has been busted in Russia and nine Indians held captive by Pakistani members of the group have been released.

Russia's Federal Security Service said the Indians were released in Tula, an industrial town near Moscow, following a raid.

The Indians had been kidnapped by Russian passport holders of Pakistani origin identified as Bat Maksud Ahmed and Khalid Nadim.

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