Police have arrested five individuals including a woman and a teen girl to facilitate an investigation into the attempted kidnapping of a nine-month-old baby girl from her babysitter’s apartment in Bukit Tengah, Bukit Mertajam last Tuesday.

Seberang Perai Tengah police chief Tan Cheng San said they were picked up in separate raids in Machang Bubok and in Kulim, Kedah, on the same day after the baby’s father lodged the police report.

He said when the baby’s mother arrived at the 65-year-old babysitter’s apartment at 5.30pm to pick up her...