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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Christopher Bucktin & Fiona Leishman

Hero brother uses SLINGSHOT to save screaming sister from kidnapper who crept from woods

A 13-year-old boy has been hailed a hero after he saved his younger sister from a kidnapper who appeared out of the woods by using his slingshot.

Owen Burns was playing video games at his home when he heard his eight-year-old sister screaming.

She'd been out looking for mushrooms in the garden, and at first Owen paid the scream no attention.

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