A 5-year-old Alabama girl is safe after being abducted from Union Springs Elementary School on Thursday morning.

Aaliyah Linton was found safe in South Carolina about four hours after her abduction, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says.

An Amber Alert was issued after witnesses told authorities Aaliyah was abducted from her school by two women at around 8:40 a.m.

Witnesses saw two women pick up the girl from outside the school and take her to a waiting vehicle driven by an unknown man. The vehicle was described as a maroon van with a North Carolina license plate.

South Carolina Highway Patrol Troopers were able to locate the suspect vehicle on Interstate 85 in Lexington County, S.C. due to the alert and coordinated distribution of information, ALEA said.

Police identified the abductors as Aaliyah's father, Alton Linton; her grandmother, Melissa Brown; and aunt, Malaysia Linton. The suspects were arrested and charged with interference with custody by Union Springs police.

Aaliyah's mother told WSFA this afternoon that she would be traveling to South Carolina to pick up her daughter.

The motive for the abduction hasn't been released.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the Union Springs Police Department and several regional and federal law enforcement partner agencies participated in the investigation.

"We and our partners in Bullock County and across the Southeast gave this case 110 percent until the child was found," Secretary of Law Enforcement Spencer Collier said. "It truly was a team effort involving Alabama State Troopers, the State Bureau of Investigations, Alabama Fusion Center and Union Springs Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service, FBI and Fusion Centers in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina working through our Alabama Fusion Center to ensure young Aaliyah Linton was recovered safely.

"This type of consolidated effort should be celebrated," he said. "Aaliyah was recovered safely because of the professional and determined actions of all involved in this investigation."

Union Springs police notified the State Bureau of Investigation's Alabama Center for Missing and Exploited Children Unit to request assistance at around 9 a.m. and an Amber Alert was issued and released to the media at around 11 a.m.

ALEA Agency said intelligence analysts with the help of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children coordinated the distribution of the alert to Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

Updated at 8:44 p.m. with additional information from ALEA.