Police are searching for a man who allegedly abducted a 7-year-old girl from an Edmonton park but was forced to abandon her at a gas station a few hours later when an employee became suspicious.
Officers said the girl was kidnapped by a balding blonde man in his late 20s or early 30s near her family's home at around 11 a.m. Sunday.
CTV Edmonton reported that the suspect was driving a blue SUV and asked the girl, who was playing with her brothers, to come to his vehicle to look at some cats.
After the young girl stepped inside the vehicle and the man drove off, the girl's brothers alerted their parents.
Police quickly issued an Amber Alert and the girl was found around three hours later at a service station in Evansburg, Alta, about 100 kilometres west of Edmonton.
The girl's condition wasn't known Sunday evening but police said she was going to be examined.
Police said the suspect, who is about six-feet tall, was wearing silver-rimmed glasses, a dark-coloured zip-up jacket and light blue jeans at the time of the abduction.
The last three digits on the SUV's license plate are 179.
CTV Edmonton also reported that the man allegedly approached two other young girls prior to the incident telling them he had kittens for sale.
