MPUMALANGA. – A five-year-old girl was safely found on Monday after a man (45) allegedly took her at around 16:30 in Kwazamokuhle near Hendrina. He was reportedly injured when community members apprehended him and is under police guard in hospital.
Sgt. Thulisile Magagula, police spokesperson, says the girl was playing with another child a few metres from her grandmother's property. A neighbour alerted the grandmother after reportedly seeing the girl walking away with an unknown man. The man allegedly told family members the grandmother had given him permission to take the child.
Magagula says family members and community members tracked down the man. He allegedly left the girl and tried to run away when he realised people were chasing him. The girl was found in an open field and the man was apprehended near a river. Hendrina police are investigating a case of abduction.
Lt.Gen. Apaphia Modise, provincial police commissioner, thanked the people who helped recover the girl safely and urged residents to report alleged crimes to police.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
