Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police busted a gang of four people allegedly involved in selling newborn children after abducting them.

The police have arrested four people including two women, identified as Sidra and Pari, and two men, Fayyaz Ahmad and Akhtar Ali.

The arrested people belong to Peshawar and Charsadda.

The police also managed to recover a newborn girl that the gang had abducted from a gynae ward in Charsadda.

Sidra and Akhtar Ali had sold the child for Rs30,000 after the abduction, police said.