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Police rescue woman robbed at gunpoint and kidnapped in Kamloops

The captive woman was found in a vehicle with firearms near Falkland, B.C., after being robbed in downtown Kamloops and held against her will as her captors travelled to Kelowna.

Victim found uninjured, one suspect still at large

The search for a kidnapped woman in Kamloops involved RCMP officers from Kamloops and Kelowna as they pursued her captors. (Cory Correia/CBC News)

A kidnapped woman is now safe after police found her insideher captors' vehicle near Falkland,inB.C.'s southern Interior.

According to KamloopsRCMP, the woman was with two menin downtown Kamloops on Thursday morning when two other males robbed the trio at gunpoint. The woman was forced into a vehicle the kidnappers stole from one of the male victims.

The group was headed to Kelowna when shewas found Friday in a different vehicle.

Chase ensues

Kamloops RCMPtracked the suspects to a residence on Dallas Drive in Kamloops. They found the home empty and ransacked, laterlocatingthe abandoned stolen vehicle, according to a statement from police.

Members of the Kamloops RCMP, Kelowna RCMP and Southeast District Emergency Response Team then converged on an apartmentin Kelownawhere they arrested one robbery suspect, but did not find the kidnapped woman.

Suspect still at large

On Feb. 15, police determined the woman could be in a vehicle travelling from Kamloops to Kelowna. She was discovered uninjured in that car when police stopped it near Falkland. Firearms were seized from the vehicle and a male and female were arrested.

Police are still trying to locate the second robbery suspect.

According toKamloopsRCMP, this was a targeted crime involvingparticipants in theKamloopsdrug trade.