All news on the topic: abduction

13-year-old Owen Burns leapt into action Bart Simpson-style after hearing his sister screaming and seeing a young man emerge out of the woods to grab her, by grabbing his slingshot and firing at the suspect with a marble and rock

The six-month-old baby boy was found near a ravine surrounded by rubbish more than an hour after the 911 call reporting the car he had been in had been stolen in Fort Worth, Texas

Kayla Unbehaun, nine, was abducted by her mum Heather Unbehaun in Illinois, US, in July 2017 and had been missing ever since - until she featured on Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries

The 17-year-old's name has not been released though he has been charged as an adult with one count of attempted kidnapping/child enticement, and one count of assault and battery

Police warned other parents to be vigilant as the hunt for the would-be kidnapper intensifies, after the mum caught up in a desperate tug-of-war to stop a woman from snatching her baby

A vigilante mum has walked free from court after she abducted and tied up a suspected drug dealer. Scot Linda Gowers, 40, bundled Michael Graham into a van and took him to her house in Kirriemuir, Angus before calling the police

US citizen Edgar Perez Chairez, 35, who is also known as 'Polvos', was abducted near the corner of Avenida Tabasco and Calle Chilpancingo in Mexicali, Mexico

Police have charged a brother and sister over the murder of Wilmer 'Dino' Trivett, from Markleeville, California. The victim allegedly paid the pair off following a traffic accident but they decided they wanted more, kidnapped him and then killed him

Jon Baylis says a woman tried to abduct his son in a shoe shop while staff watched and did nothing - now other parents have reported similar terrifying incidents with the suspect

Philip Mehrtens' single-engine plane was stormed after it landed in the remote mountainous province of Nduga, in the Indonesian province of Highland Papua by armed rebels

The frightened youngsters were approached by an apparent stranger in the dark and invited into his car before making the decision to run away in Ponteland, Northumberland

The man arrested after six British children were rescued from a cellar in Austria, is 54-year-old Tom Landon, reports say - he was arrested after allegedly attacking two social workers with pepper spray

María Ángela Olguín, 16, told police she had been held captive with "many other young girls" in Mexico City before a passer-by found her dumped alive in a rubbish tip

Armed men attacked the station in Igueben town in Edo State, abducting an unknown number of people waiting to board, said Chidi Nwabuzor, the police spokesman for Edo State, in a statement

Zachary Mills, 21, is now free after posting a $50,000 bond for allegedly beating, raping and starving his Bumble date who had gone to his apartment in Harris County, Texas on Christmas Eve