Kollam: Over 15 hours have passed since the six-year-old girl was abducted from Oyoor here. Even though the investigation is progressing, her family, and relatives are worried a lot.
Meanwhile, an eyewitness has recalled the child's brother was trying to save her by clinging onto the door of the speeding car.
"I was coming from Oyoor Road. That car was in front. I saw her brother hanging to the left rear door of the car. I didn't know then that the younger child was inside the vehicle. I thought his family was driving the car and his parents might not have seen him hanging precariously onto the door. I tried alerting those inside the car that they had missed the child. But before I could near the car, it sped away pushing the boy out onto the road. The door was still not closed. When I asked the boy, he told me that his sister had been kidnapped," the eyewitness said.
The girl was on her way to tuition classes with her brother when she was abducted by a gang in a car around 4.45 pm. According to her older sibling, there were four people in the car, including a woman. Nearly three hours after the kidnap, a woman phoned the girl's mother and demanded a ransom of Rs 5 lakh to release the child. But an hour later, the gang contacted the family from another number and increased the amount to Rs 10 lakh amid the police investigation.
The girl's brother suffered injuries to his knees while trying to save his sister, police said. The parents of the children are nurses.
