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Amritsar, May 2 (IANS) Punjab police Monday arrested two officials of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) for abducting a Chinese tourist from this Punjab city. Two accomplices are on the run, police said.

The young girl, Yang Lulu, was found in an unconscious state in a field on the outskirts of Amritsar Sunday night. She has been discharged from a hospital here after a medical examination, police said.

“The arrested RPF officials were travelling in the same train with Yang Lulu and her friend Jiang Jiali Sunday. They became friendly with the tourists and offered to accompany them to the Golden Temple here,” Amritsar Police Commissioner Parampal Singh Sidhu told IANS.

At the Amritsar railway station, the RPF men changed their official uniform and called two more friends. They hired two taxis, one in which the two friends and the girls travelled and the other one for themselves.

While returning, they directed the taxis towards the outskirts of Amritsar, the official added.

According to Sidhu, one of the girls asked them to stop the taxi to take a short break. The moment she stepped out, the two men got away with the other girl inside the car with the RPF officials following them in the other car.

Shocked at seeing her friend being forcibly taken away, the girl immediately contacted the police and a massive search operation was launched.

The abducted Lulu was found late Sunday night unconscious in a field near Amritsar, the official said.

The two tourists, whose ages have not been ascertained, had earlier visited Rajasthan and had plans to go to Himachal Pradesh, he added.