Police in Hong Kong are stepping up the hunt for a six month old girl snatched from her stroller outside a park in Kowloon City on Saturday night.
"We have released photos and preliminary information to our frontline colleagues and we are trying our best to find her," Chief Inspector Law Kwok-hoi of the New Territories North crime unit told the SCMP.
Plainclothes officers have been going door to door speaking to shopkeepers and residents in the area, while their colleagues combed the ground near where the girl was snatched for clues.
The girl's mother, identified by the Singtao Daily as a 32 year old recent immigrant to Hong Kong, was pushing her daughter in a stroller on Saturday night. At Nam Kok Road she encountered a "Mandarin-speaking woman" who asked for directions. After she pointed the woman in the right direction she discovered that her daughter had disappeared from the stroller. She recalled that another person had walked past her very quickly while she was giving directions and suspected that it may have been this person, acting in tandem with the direction seeker, who snatched her baby.
A police statement described the suspect as a woman between 40 and 50, about 1.6 metres (5.2 feet) tall of medium build. Police fear the baby may be smuggled to the Chinese mainland.
Hong Kong chief executive CY Leung described the case as "heartbreaking" during a forum in Sha Tin on Sunday.
A Facebook page set up to increase awareness of the case has attracted over 73,000 'likes' as of Monday morning.
Update 13:15 CST: In an unexpected twist to this story, Apple Daily is reporting that the abducted girl's father, Ah Wei, is a "senior member" of the Sun Yee On triad, the largest such organisation in the world. Ah told the paper however that he doesn't think his daughter was targeted for kidnapping by one his enemies.
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