Two-year-old girl abducted

A two-year-old girl sleeping beside her mother was allegedly abducted by two masked men at a village in Udupi district in the wee hours Thursday, police said.

According to the complaint filed with police, the incident took place at around 4 am.

The girls mother woke up on hearing some noise when the abductors fled with her.

The two, who entered through a side door of the house, escaped to Hosangadi after swimming across a small river nearby, police said.

The child is the daughter of Kumtiberu Santhosh Naika, residing at Edamoge, a remote village in Kundapur taluk.

Police have launched a manhunt to nab the culprits.