Al­most 24 hours af­ter Shah­naaz Ali was ab­duct­ed in Port-of-Spain on Fri­day, she was tear­ful­ly re­unit­ed with her fam­i­ly around 5 pm yes­ter­day af­ter be­ing res­cued by po­lice of­fi­cers in the Ma­yaro dis­trict.

Sport­ing bruised arms and swollen feet, the 31-year-old ad­min­is­tra­tive as­sis­tant hob­bled in­to the arms of her par­ents, rel­a­tives and friends who had kept vig­il at her Diego Mar­tin home since news of her dis­ap­pear­ance was con­firmed on Ju­ly 3.

Rel­a­tives said Ali was found tied to a tree in the Ma­yaro dis­trict dur­ing the ear­ly hours of the morn­ing yes­ter­day.