SHAH ALAM, March 13 -- A Toyota Vios stolen yesterday near a kindergarten in Setia Alam with a six-year-old girl inside the vehicle was later found abandoned nearby, police said.

According to Shah Alam district police chief ACP Mohd Iqbal Ibrahim, police received a call at yesterday morning reporting a stolen car with a child still inside.

The incident occurred at 6.55am, when the 34-year-old mother left her eldest daughter to sleep in the car, with the engine running and doors unlocked, while dropping off her younger child at a kindergarten.

"When she returned, she realised that her car was missing, believed to have been stolen with her child still inside," he said in a statement.

With the help of the public, police found the child a...