Kidnapped newborn baby rescued

SENDAI, Japan - A man points to the glass door of a newspaper shop in Sendai on Jan. 8, where an envelop containing a handwritten letter demanding 61.5 million yen in ransom for a newborn baby was found put up. Police rescued the baby, Shu Yamada, some 50 hours after he was snatched by a man from a hospital in the city.

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