Boy (15) dragged by car after mugging
A 15-year-old boy was dragged by a car along Beyers Naude Drive, close to Melville, Johannesburg, after he attempted to resist a cellphone robbery yesterday.
It was initially speculated the boy was thrown from a car in an attempted kidnapping.
However, it later emerged the pupil had been walking home with a friend after school when a car with at least two occupants stopped next them.
One of the men then got out of the car and grabbed the boy’s cellphone.
Forsythe added the teen resisted, clung onto the assailants’ car and was subsequently dragged along the road for a few 100 metres.
Police and paramedics were later called on to the scene, and the boy was taken to Helen Joseph Hospital. He was said to be in a stable condition.
Police investigations into the incident are ongoing.
In a similar incident, four-year-old Taegrin Morris was killed after being dragged outside a car for more than 8km after a hijacking in Reiger Park, on Gauteng’s East Rand.
Three hijackers approached the car Taegrin’s family were travelling in and ordered his mother and sister out of the vehicle before driving away and dragging the toddler, who was trapped in his seat belt.
– Caxton News Service
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