Kidnappers sought

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The 79-year-old was kidnapped from this Publix on Gandy Boulevard in Tampa.

Tampa police are looking for two women who kidnapped another woman from a grocery store.

The incident took place Monday afternoon at a Publix store on Gandy Boulevard in South Tampa.

"She (one suspect) forced her into the front seat of her own car," said Tampa Police Spokesman Joe Durkin. "As she forced her into the car, she was holding something into her back, telling the victim she had a gun."

Durkin said the suspect said, "Don't make me use this. Get in the car."

Durkin said the second suspect jumped in the driver's seat and forced the 79-year-old victim to tell her where she banked.

After the victim told the suspects she banked at the Colonial Bank on North Armenia Avenue, they forced her to go there and instructed her

The woman was forced to withdraw money from this Colonial Bank on North Armenia Avenue.

to write down what they wanted her to do at the bank, which was to withdraw thousands of dollars. Durkin would not say exactly how much was withdrawn.

The two suspects then forced the victim to drive to another Colonial Bank in the 1700 block of South Dale Mabry Highway. They forced her to go inside and get more money. After she came back to the car they drove her back to the location where they had abducted her.

The two suspects forced the victim down on the floor of the car and escaped, without the victim seeing which direction they went.

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