Man held after trying to snatch boy

Saudi police arrested a local man within hours after he tried to snatch a little boy just as he stepped out of her house and headed for the shop.

Police seized the man as he was driving out of town in a bid to escape arrest after he was reported by the boy’s father.“They put him in a line at the police station and the boy identified him as the man who tried to kidnap him,” Kabar newspaper said in a report from the central town of Kharj near the capital Riyadh.

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