COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Police have launched a manhunt for a suspect believed to have abducted a 9-year-old girl in Pueblo as she was walking home from school.
Police said the girl was found safe Friday at a convenience store in Colorado Springs after she escaped from her captor. The girl was taken to the hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries.
Police spokeswoman Barbara Miller tells KMGH-TV ( ) that police are searching for a man for questioning.
Miller said the man and the girl were traveling in a car when it broke down early Friday. A person picked them up and dropped them off at the convenience store, where the girl refused to leave and contacted police.
Students at four schools in the area are being kept inside while police search for suspects.
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Information from: KMGH-TV,
