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Girl reunited with grandma after being abducted from Queens supermarket, sources say

Girl abducted from Queens supermarket reunited with her grandmother, sources say
Girl abducted from Queens supermarket reunited with her grandmother, sources say 00:28

NEW YORK — A child was reunited with her grandmother after being abducted from a Queens supermarket Thursday, but police are still searching for the suspect, police sources say.

Police sources tell CBS News New York the 9-year-old girl was led to the suspect's car in the Key Food supermarket parking lot on Jamaica Avenue in Queens Village. They returned about 25 minutes later.

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The NYPD is looking for a man accused of abducting a 9-year-old girl from a supermarket in Queens. NYPD

We're told the girl has been reunited with her grandmother, who was inside a bathroom at the supermarket when the crime took place.

Police are now looking for a man in his 60s driving a brown Honda Civic, believed to be an older model with New York State license plates.

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The NYPD is looking for a man accused of abducting a 9-year-old girl from a supermarket in Queens. NYPD

Investigators are canvassing the neighborhood with surveillance images of the suspect. Anyone with any information about the case is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip via their website or via DM on Twitter, @NYPDTips. All calls are kept confidential. 

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