Viral message on child kidnapping false: police
Police are urging the public to stop circulating a false social media message about a blue car said to be used in the kidnapping of children on the KwaZulu-Natal nmorth coast.
A driver for an NGO was chased by angry locals to the Umhlali Police Station on Saturday.
They had claimed two boys who were feared missing were seen being pulled into the blue car the man had been driving.
The driver was ambushed by a search party while he was running errands in uMdloti, north of Durban.
It turned out the boys had gone hunting without their grandmother's permission.
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The police's Thulani Zwane says the social media messages are fake news.
"The community members are warned that they must not circulate any false information to social media before that information can be verified with the police. Right now, there is no truth to the matter because there is no one who came forward and report that their children were kidnapped or taken away in these vehicles," Zwane said.
The boys have returned home, while the driver was released.
