Kidnapped newborn baby rescued

SENDAI, Japan - Police investigators check the entrance to a building in Sendai, where a kidnapped baby was found early Jan. 8, some 50 hours after he was snatched by a man from a hospital in the city. Police said they were questioning a man in his 50s and a woman in her 30s on suspicion of kidnapping the newborn baby, Shu Yamada, for a ransom.

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