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A nine-year-old girl was abducted from her north Surrey home Wednesday night and then sexually assaulted before being released, police said Thursday.

Surrey RCMP say the little girl was lured out of her bedroom where she was sleeping by an unknown male and taken to a local park where she was assaulted.

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Police flooded the area and were going door-to-door in an effort to find anyone who might have seen the incident.

They were also telling residents to keep their windows closed — despite the hot weather — until they have the suspect in custody.

“We’re warning people to be vigilant with their windows and to brace their windows with a stick or bars, or to close them all together,” Sergeant Dale Carr said.

Police say they were called to the girl’s home about 10:40 p.m., when the girl’s mother stated her daughter had been abducted from her bedroom in the family house in the 9900-block of 128th Street.

No description of the suspect has been released

When police arrived, they learned the girl had been lured out her open bedroom window by a man she didn’t know. He took her to a nearby park where police allege he sexually assaulted her and then took her to a nearby yard where he released her. He apparently told her to stay where she was until he left. She ran home and alerted her mother. The man remains at large.