Cape Town – A 2-year-old boy was reportedly found safe over the weekend after his father’s vehicle was apparently hijacked by robbers at a Boksburg petrol station.
The robbers, according to News24, drove off with the child inside.
The report said that the incident occurred after Johannesburg Metro Police Department’s K9 officers were alerted to a house robbery in Winchester Hills earlier on Saturday.
When they arrived at the house, the robbers had reportedly fled and abandoned their black Mercedes-Benz in Van Dykpar and hijacked an Audi from a man who was about to fill his tank at a petrol station.
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They drove with the man’s 2-year-old boy inside the Audi, the report said.
They then abandoned the vehicle and left the child inside.
Officers made the discovery and the boy’s parents fetched him from the scene.
A similar incident occurred last year in Observatory, Cape Town.
Sowetan Live reported that a mother was reunited with her months-old baby boy after a terrifying ordeal involving a hijacker, who made off with her car and the baby inside.
The boy was late found unharmed at an address in Dellville Square in Maitland.
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