Teenage girl Ahd Abdurrahman Ahmad could not restrain her tears while narrating her rescue after being kidnapped last week. Talking to Okaz/Saudi Gazette she thanked Almighty Allah for her return to her family home. “Thanks to Allah and thanks to the young man who rescued me and covered me with his Shmagh (Saudi head gear) to protect me from the gaze of onlookers, I am back in my home,” she said with tears in his eyes. The kidnappers had taken away her abaya and head cover. Ahd said she would be grateful to the young man all her life. But, Omar Abdul Aziz Muhammad Al-Delaijan, the young man who rescued Ahd, said he does not need any accolades. “I am not awaiting any thanks from her,” he told Okaz/Saudi Gazette. “All I did was according to my religion and my conscience,” he said. “I was returning from Al-Thuqbah Secondary School and I found a girl on the street,” he recounted. “She told me when I came close to her, ‘Catch the thief! Catch the thief, Ziyad!' I don't know anyone with this name so I told her to remember Allah. She begged me to rescue her and take her back to her family or the police. I stopped a car carrying a family and informed them about the matter. They told me it would be better to call the police so I called the police and a security patrol arrived. She begged me not to leave her. We went to the police station. The girl absolved the young man of all the responsibility. The 16-year-old girl disappeared Wednesday from her family home in Al-Khobar. The Saudi Gazette reported this week about the disappearance of the girl from her family home. Authorities have now launched an investigation into the girl's disappearance. The girl was greatly distressed by the incident, her mother said. “For three days she could not take a single bite,” she said. “She only drank water and suffered an acute nervous breakdown, which prevented her from eating to the extent that when she returned she was starving and had dinner twice on Saturday night.” __
