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Two abducted children found safe and well in Amboasary Atsimo

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Two children aged 11 and 9, abducted on 17 October in the Amboasary Atsimo district, were found safe and well by gendarmes on the morning of 24 October. The compilation also reports the death of a child bitten by a dog, the discovery of an abandoned newborn and the arrest of four people suspected of using counterfeit banknotes.

Two children aged 11 and 9 who were abducted in the Amboasary Atsimo district of Madagascar were found safe and well by the gendarmerie on the morning of Saturday 24 October, Newsmada reports.

The children had been abducted on 17 October in the fokontany of Ambalasarety. After receiving a complaint, gendarmes began searching for them. The kidnappers allegedly lured the children by offering to pay them to throw away rubbish, then took them to the fokontany of Helibondro.

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