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Nov 11, 2008 5:08 am US/Central

Police Search For Woman Who Took Young Girl

CHICAGO (CBS) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 2: Three-year-old Sana Patel disappeared from a CVS drug store on the Northwest Side Monday afternoon.
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Click to enlarge 2 of 2: She was found safe seven hours later behind an apartment building nearly a mile away, and police are searching for the woman they believe took her.
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Police are searching for a woman seen leaving a CVS drugstore in the Avondale neighborhood with a 3-year-old girl who was considered missing for about 7 hours.

As CBS 2's Joanie Lum reports, the girl, Sana Patel, vanished from the CVS at 3311 N. Pulaski Rd. Monday afternoon.

Sana was reunited with her parents at an apartment building at Kostner and Wellington avenues around 9:20 p.m., Someone saw her in the alley near the building, which is almost a mile from the CVS store.

Surveillance photos show the girl playing by the doors of the store around 2:45 p.m. Monday. Then a woman appears. Police said the woman talked with the girl and apparently left with her.

Police have tried talking with the toddler about her experience, but so far, the pictures are their only tool in solving the case.

The surveillance images showed a dark-skinned woman in a white jacket and maroon pants and a ponytail walking with Sana through the parking lot, police said.

Police are interviewing several suspects in the case.

"The investigation will continue," said Albany Park District Police Cmdr. Michael Mealer. "We will try to identify that individual. We will try to find out what happened from the time the child left the CVS with that individual to the time the child was finally found in the alley."

The girl did not have her coat on, and police say there is no way she could have made it from the drugstore to the distant alley by herself.

Due to the cold weather Monday night, Sana was taken to Children's Memorial Hospital, where she was reported in good condition.

CBS 2's Joanie Lum and the STNG Wire contributed to this report.

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