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Mum's happiness as daughter comes home 34 years after she was kidnapped

Jackie and her youngest daughter Safia have been reunited (Image: Digichemistry)

When her three young girls were abducted by their father and taken abroad, Jackie Saleh was certain she would never see them again.

“My world fell apart,” she says. “I felt I’d failed. They were cruelly snatched away from me. That should never, ever happen. A mother should never have to go through that.”

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