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Friday December 14, 2007

Girl, 12, rescued from house

KULIM: Nor Amira Fatihah Mohammad Rosdi, 12, has been found, 10 days after she was reportedly kidnapped after a Quran class.

Her mother Asmah Ismail, 45, received a tip-off that Nor Amira was held in a house in Nagalilit in Padang Serai and rushed there yesterday with seven relatives to rescue her.

They found the girl safe and sound but looking confused,

Nor Amira had been staying with a family at the house.

Safe and sound: Nor Amira (second from left) with her parents Asmah and Mohammad Rosi Md Noh and Supt Ghuzlan.
“We were allowed into the house, which was full of people. At first, my daughter appeared confused and frightened.

“Then I hugged her and told her to follow me home and we brought her out of the house. Nobody tried to stop us,” a relieved Asmah said at her Taman Kota Kenari home yesterday.

She added that some strangers approached her at her house on Wednesday night to inform her of her daughter’s whereabouts.

On Wednesday, the Kulim/Bandar Baru MCA service team distributed about 200 photographs of Nor Amira in Padang Serai town and here in a move to help locate her.

It was reported earlier that Nor Amira was abducted while waiting for her mother to pick her up from a Quran reading class in Taman Kenari on Dec 3.

She was waiting for her mother at about 8pm when a couple in a white Proton Iswara Aeroback picked her up and drove off.

Kulim acting OCPD Deputy Supt Ghuzlan Salleh said that police picked up a 40-year-old man at about 9am in Kulim town yesterday.

Police also took statements from Nor Amira and her mother.

“Although Nor Amira appeared traumatised, she has not been physically hurt or abused,” he said.

“We are not certain about the motive for the kidnapping but will be recording statements from a few more people.”

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