Taxi passengers chased and held a man who had allegedly kidnapped a 62-year-old woman and her granddaughter, 9, in Arlington, Free State on Saturday.
Taxi passengers chased and held a man who had allegedly kidnapped a 62-year-old woman and her granddaughter.A suspect has been arrested for kidnapping a woman and her granddaughter.Free State police arrested a man for allegedly kidnapping a 62-year-old woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter in Arlington, Free State on Saturday after taxi passengers came to their rescue.
The woman, who knew the suspected accomplice, agreed and drove them to the hiking spot in her Mercedes Benz. Her granddaughter was also in the car. "They allegedly pulled her out of the driver's seat and put her in the front passenger seat. As they were driving towards Senekal on the R707, the car got three tyre punctures and it ran out of petrol," Mophiring added.
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