<i>Instinctive boy frees himself from abduction </i>
Six hours into his abduction, an 11-year-old boy made a rare escape from the confinement of his abductors in Old Dhaka Tuesday.
It was his instincts that saved Imtiaz Ahmed Siam, a class VI student at Nababpur Government High School.
Siam was abducted by one of his acquaintances around 2:30pm on Tuesday when he was playing near his Malitola house.
Siam's father Sirajuddowla is a businessman. The abductors asked him to pay Tk 20 lakh as ransom; otherwise, they threatened, his son would be dead by the next day.
Sirajuddowla told The Daily Star how his son was abducted and how he made his escape using his instincts.
On Tuesday, Anik Chowdhury, a relative of one of the tenants of Siam's house, took him to his Jatrabari apartment, saying he would show Siam an aquarium there. Anik's apartment is on the third floor of a five-storey building.
As soon as he entered the house, Anik and his wife scotch taped his mouth and tied his hands and legs with scarves.
They then put him into the box of a box-bed with two mattresses pressed against his body. The abductors asked him not to make any noise or sound.
As Siam was sweating inside the box, quite a while later he stopped hearing footsteps in the apartment.
He made his first move now--he started to rub his mouth against the wall of the box and soon the scotch tape came off. Now he untied the scarf around his hands with his teeth and used his hands to untie the legs.
Sensing that nobody was inside the flat, he came out of the box and found the main door of the apartment locked from outside. So he bolted it from inside to prevent the abductors from entering.
He first screamed for help but nobody heard. He then entered the kitchen and started to throw vegetables through window to the ground.
As some people gathered at the scene, Siam tried to talk to them but they did not understand him. It was night by then.
So Siam got some paper and wrote how he was abducted and how he was brought there. He threw the notes down. Many people gathered at the scene by that time and rescued Siam.
They also caught the abductor Anik and handed him over to Jatrabari police. Anik was taken on a one-day remand yesterday.
Siam's father filed an abduction case against Anik with Bangshal Police Station.
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