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Po­lice have res­cued a 73-year-old busi­ness­woman less than 24 hours af­ter she was ab­duct­ed from her home, in what Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro de­scribed as a “ma­jor break­through” against cross-bor­der kid­nap­ping net­works.

In an au­dio state­ment is­sued this morn­ing, Gue­var­ro con­firmed that Tara Po­li­ah, of Samoa, was tak­en around 7.30 pm yes­ter­day while in the garage of her home.

He said four male sus­pects ap­proached Po­li­ah and forced her in­to a white Nis­san wag­on be­fore flee­ing the scene.