August 21, 2003

Texting frees Dutch kidnap victim

Dutch police freed a Canadian woman kidnapped in the Netherlands when she texted a call for help to a friend, according to this AP story:

"'After receiving the message the friend went to the Canadian police who in turn informed international police organisation Interpol (and they) sent a fax to the police on Monday,' said Carel Bouman, spokesman for police in the southern Dutch town of Tilburg.

The police went to the man's address and found the 36-year-old Canadian woman. She said she had been held against her will for a month by a 42-year-old Dutchman she met via the Internet."

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