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Michigan gas station clerk saves teen from alleged kidnapper after she whispers ‘help’

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Michigan gas station clerk saves teen from alleged kidnapper after she whispers ‘help’
In Hamtramck, Abdulrahman Abohatem placed himself between 16-year-old girl and man before police arrestA gasoline station clerk who came to a suburban
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In Hamtramck, Abdulrahman Abohatem placed himself between 16-year-old girl and man before police arrest

A gasoline station clerk who came to a suburban Detroit girl’s defense when she entered his store and mouthed the word “help” ultimately had a hand in saving the teenager after a stranger had kidnapped her at gunpoint on her way to school, according to authorities.

“I believe this could have [gone] a lot worse than it did,” said police chief Hussein Farhat of Hamtramck, Michigan, at a news conference addressing a rescue partially attributed to convenience store employee Abdulrahman Abohatem. “We have every belief that this could have ended really badly.”

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Source: Guardian - World News

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