year-old girl whose father reported her as abducted by four Burmese men from her home in the Al-Harra Al-Gharbiya district of Madina has called police to say she left of her own accord with her husband. The girl told police Sunday that she had legally married a man with whom she had been in a long-term relationship and was returning to Madina. She described her father's story as a “figment of his imagination in an attempt to foil the marriage”. The father initially claimed that his daughter had been abducted from her home by four Burmese men after they tied up his wife in the bathroom. “I wasn't at home at the time, and the children answered a knock at the door and heard a man saying he had come to deliver some clothes,” he said. “When they opened it, four men rushed in, tied up my wife and locked the children in a room.” He said she was then forced into a car and taken away before he returned home and contacted police. Police had begun to suspect the father's claims shortly after when they discovered that she had been involved in a relationship with a man from Makkah for two years. They said that notebooks in her room at home had been found to contain “amorous expressions and drawings”, suggesting she “knew the kidnapper from before”. “She had run away from home before, two years ago,” the sources said. “The girl is currently engaged to be married.” Police had said previously that they had also arrested an Asian resident living near the girl's home for questioning.
