Mother and daughter escape from kidnap ordeal

A MOTHER and daughter on holiday in Australia escaped unharmed from a 13-hour night-time ordeal in an Outback forest after they were abducted

The man fired a shot to force the women into bushland in a national park before handcuffing them to a tree for more than seven hours.

Police said the gunman struck up a conversation with the two women on Saturday afternoon as they emerged from the water after swimming at the popular Tolmer Falls in Litchfield National Park, about 62 miles south of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory state.