By Ivan Watson and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, CNN
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: The girl is reunited with her family
- A brother of Anwar Sadat tells CNN earlier his grandniece was snatched
- Kidnapping is extremely rare in Egypt
Cairo (CNN) — Less than 24 hours after suspected kidnappers in Cairo seized a 14-year-old girl who is a descendant of assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, a relative said early Monday that Zeina Sadat was back home with her family.
“Zeina has come back to home,” Zein Sadat, the girl’s great-uncle and one of the slain president’s surviving brothers, said in a brief 1 a.m. phone call to CNN. “I am telling you that our girl is home.”
Zeina Sadat was on her way to school in the upscale neighborhood of Heliopolis on Sunday when at least two men stopped the car in which she was traveling and beat up her driver, Zein Sadat said.
Sadat said the kidnappers had been in telephone contact with Zeina’s father, and had demanded a ransom of 5 million Egyptian pounds (some $840,000) for her safe return. He offered few details to CNN about the details of her release.
Kidnapping is extremely rare in Egypt. And the targeting of a prominent political family is likely to raise fears in a country struggling with instability after the revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak in early February.
Zein Sadat denied there were political motives for the kidnapping, saying the suspects appeared “unprofessional.”
Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981.
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