Man quizzed after child abducted in Tauranga

A man is being questioned by police after a five-year-old girl was abducted in Tauranga this morning.

Police said the girl was walking to school with her seven-year-old brother in suburban Mangatapu about 9am when she was approached by a man and taken away.

She was found safe in an isolated rural area of the Bay of Plenty a few hours later.

National Radio said a man, understood to be unknown to the girl, was being questioned.

- NZPA