Police arrest man after three-year-old girl carried off at supermarket

A man has been arrested after a young girl was carried off by a stranger at a supermarket in England.

The three-year-old was plucked from the moving walkway in a "distressing" incident at a Morrisons store on Railway Road in Blackburn on Thursday, Lancashire Police said.

The girl had been walking to the car park with her mother and five-year-old sister when she was picked up by the man.

He carried her a short distance before putting her down again, when she ran back to her mother.

A police spokesman said: "Following an appeal for information, a 44-year-old man from Blackburn was arrested on suspicion of child abduction and is currently in custody."