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29 March 2024

Saudi cops find child abducted last week

Jouri was found in a good condition and was taken for medical checkup before she was handed to her family, says a Sabq report

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Saudi police found the two-and-a-half-year-old girl kidnapped last week and arrested her abductor and his accomplices in a raid on their apartment, newspapers reported on Wednesday.

Police stormed the flat in the capital Riyadh after watching a suspect for two days based on descriptions provided by witnesses and his image in a film taken by security cameras in and around a medical centre where he snatched the child.

Police spokesman Colonel Fawaz Al Miman said the cops stormed the flat and found Jouri Al Khaldi in good condition with an Ethiopian woman in her 30s.

He told local newspapers that the cops also arrested the abductor, who he described as a dangerous armed man with criminal record. He said another accomplice of Syrian nationality was also nabbed as he tried to escape.

“Jouri was found in a good condition…she was taken for medical checkup before she was handed to her family,” he said, quoted by Sabq and other dailies.

Jouri was with her relatives at a medical centre in Riyadh last week when she suddenly disappeared. Security cameras inside and outside the centre showed a man was talking to her before he took her out.

A staff member at the centre said she saw her getting into the man’s car, apparently thinking he is her father.

Relatives announced after her absence a cash reward of SR1 million (Dh1m) for information leading to her whereabouts.