( CNN ) -- A five-year-old British boy who was kidnapped in Pakistan earlier this month has been found safe and is back with his relatives , the British High Commission said Tuesday . Sahil Saeed was released at a school in the Punjab province of Pakistan , said Assistant Chief Constable David Thompson of the Greater Manchester Police in England , near his parents ' residence in Oldham . From there , Sahil wandered into a field and was found by residents who looked after him until police arrived , Thompson said . Regional Pakistani police said Sahil was found near the town of Danga in Punjab province , close to where he was abducted March 3 . Sahil was in good condition , said Aslam Tareen , the head of the regional police . `` He is with members of family in Pakistan and the Pakistani police , and there is also contact from the British High Commission , '' Thompson said . He added that Sahil had already spoken to his mother and father in England by telephone and that both parents were `` clearly relieved '' to speak to their son . The High Commission issued a statement thanking police in Jhelum , another town in the eastern province of Punjab , for the boy 's return . `` This is fantastic news that brings to an end a traumatic ordeal faced by Sahil and his family , '' said Adam Thomson , the British high commissioner to Pakistan . Police arrested some of the kidnappers , said Rana Sanaullah , the provincial law minister . Sahil , a British citizen of Pakistani descent , was on the last day of a two-week vacation in Pakistan before he was to return home to Oldham , in northern England . Gunmen barged into Sahil 's grandmother 's home in Jhelum and took him . They reportedly demanded a ransom of 10 million rupees ( $ 118,000 ) . Pakistan 's Interior Minister Rehman Malik had said the captors included someone close to the family . `` There is someone who is very close to the family because the way the situation happened , the way the entry was made , '' Malik told reporters . But Tareen said Tuesday there is no evidence that any family member was involved . There was also no indication a ransom was paid , Tareen said . Sanaullah , the law minister , said the kidnappers were part of a ring that operated in and out of Pakistan . He did not elaborate . Thompson , of the Greater Manchester Police , could not comment on the possibility of arrests in England . `` At this stage there are no inquiries that we 're carrying out in the UK that would lead me to contemplate that we 'd make an arrest in the near future , '' he said .
NEW : Muhammad Saeed was released at a school in the Punjab province of Pakistan . Sahil was in good condition , said Ali Tareen , the head of the regional police . Gunmen took him at gunpoint from his family 's home in Punjabon on March 7 . They reportedly demanded a ransom of 1 million rupees ( $ 118,000 )