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29 March 2024

Baby kidnapped hours after birth in Saudi

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A Saudi baby was kidnapped from hospital just hours after he was born and his father quickly offered a SR100,000 reward for any information that will lead to his son, newspapers in the Gulf Kingdom reported on Monday.

Security cameras planted recently inside the hospital in the central town of Madina led police to suspect that a woman in her 40s could have snatched the baby from his cot next to his sleeping mother.

“There is a state of alert by police in the city after the kidnap of the infant from the hospital at dawn on Sunday,” Alwatan daily said.

It quoted the baby’s father, Badr Almazeeni, as saying he is offering SR100,000 for any clue that will lead to his child.

He said the hospital is to blame for the baby’s disappearance, adding that he had seen a woman in her 40s talk to his wife just after birth.

“She has a dark colour and I think that from her accent, she is a resident of Madina…she told my wife that she works as a nurse under training at the hospital and that she has been assigned to serve her and the baby,” he said.