Panaji: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped from her house in Porvorim by two persons, who befriended her on social networking site Facebook. Hours later, she was rescued, police said yesterday.

After the rescue operation on Monday night, the Goa police nabbed two persons, one of them a minor boy. While Shabbir Babasaheb Sayed (21) was arrested, the minor was sent to a state-run Juvenile Home, they said. "The college-going girl was kidnapped in a white car and we rescued her within three hours. She has been handed over to the family," said Porvorim Police Inspector Jivba Dalvi, who headed the rescue operation.