Missing Saudi “genie” girl remains a mystery

A Saudi teen age girl whose father says she has been kidnapped by a genie has remained missing more than a week after she disappeared from her house in central Saudi Arabia, a local newspaper reported on Monday.

Police and residents have expanded their hunt for the 16-year-old girl while several pilots using gliders have just joined the search in the central town of Alkharj and nearby mountains and valleys, Shams daily said.

“The Saudi Sky Glider Team has joined the search operation to find the girl, who has been missing since last week,” the paper said.

“The pilots have been conducting continuous flights with their air gliders above the town and surrounding mountains and valleys as well as other regions, accompanied by the girl’s brother so he can identify her.”

Newspapers said last week a large unit of local police backed by a civil defence aircraft and hundreds of town residents were looking for the girl, whose father said has been kidnapped by a jinn (genie).

The girl disappeared from her house a month ago but was found later in Riyadh.

She vanished again last week, triggering a massive search campaign.

“Her father believes she is possessed by a jinn, who threatened to take her to Riyadh last month and carried out his threat,” Shams said.

“He says this jinn speaks out through her and told them that he would take her to Riyadh…and that is what happened as they later found her in Batiha neighourhood in Riyadh…he then threatened that he would take her away and make her disappear forever…he said he would take her outside the country.”

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