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Three young women who vanished in separate incidents about a decade ago in the US state of Ohio have been found alive in a house in Cleveland.

Amanda Berry disappeared aged 16 in 2003, Gina DeJesus went missing aged 14 a year later, and Michele Knight disappeared in 2002 aged around 19.

Their discovery followed a dramatic bid for freedom by Amanda Berry on Monday, helped by a neighbour.

Three brothers have been arrested in connection with the case.

Cleveland police said the suspects are Hispanic, aged 50, 52 and 54, and one of them had lived at the house on Seymour Avenue.

One was named as Ariel Castro, who has worked as a school bus driver.

Police have said a six-year-old was also found at the home. They have not revealed any further details, although a relative of Amanda Berry said she told him she had a daughter.

The girls' family reacted with shock and delight at news of their discovery, and many people gathered outside the home where they had allegedly been imprisoned.

"In all this time, 10 years, nobody never figured nothing about where she was at and this has come to an end and it's right here on Seymour," said Gina DeJesus' uncle.

A doctor said the three women were in a fair condition and were being kept in hospital for observation.

"This isn't the ending we usually hear to these stories," said Dr Gerald Maloney in a brief news conference outside Metro Health hospital in Cleveland. "We're very happy."

Speaking amid cheers from spectators, he added the women were able to speak to hospital staff but he declined to give further details.

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A friend of April Jones who was playing with the five-year-old before she went missing told police April had a "happy face" as she got into a vehicle.

April disappeared near her home in Machynlleth, Powys, on 1 October, 2012. She has never been found.

The trial at Mold Crown Court of Mark Bridger, 47, who denies her abduction and murder, has been hearing a police interview with April's friend.

The seven-year-old girl said in the interview the vehicle "looks familiar".

The girl said: "Me and her [April] were playing."

She added that there was a "man by his van" and she described how she saw April "by the Land Rover van".

"I saw her by the person that was waiting by the van," she said.

Asked if she had seen the Land Rover there before, she said: "It looks familiar it does, because I have seen [two other people] in it before."

Later in the interview, she said: "She [April] didn't say that she was going to go in it."

She went on to say: "The man didn't take her in the van. She got in the van having a happy face she was."

The girl is not in court but can be seen on two screens via video link from Aberystwyth. She had a teddy bear on the desk in front of her.

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