KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) -- Authorities say a 2-year-old girl who was taken by a stranger from her western Missouri home has been found safe in Iowa.
The Cass County Sheriff's Department says two people were with Syah Duffey in a vehicle stopped by the Iowa State Highway Patrol near the Des Moines suburb of Mitchellville.
The stop was made around 5:45 p.m. Thursday, about nine hours after Syah's mother turned the toddler over to a woman who showed up at their home in East Lynne, Mo. Authorities said the woman claimed she was with a state agency and needed to remove the child from the home.
The woman had been driving a van with Iowa license plates.
No other details were immediately released about the two people found with Syah.
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