An ER24 paramedic with the three-year-old boy. Photo submitted.
A three-year-old boy from Randfontein was found unhurt but visibly shaken in an abandoned hijacked vehicle more than 40km away from home early on the morning of Tuesday, 12 March.
According to Russel Meiring, the ER24 spokesperson, the father said that they were hijacked in the Randfontein area earlier.
“ER24 paramedics were dispatched to the Grasmere area at about 9.45am, after the local authorities found an abandoned vehicle on a dirt road.
On arrival, local authorities found a three-year-old boy still inside the vehicle.
“We assessed the boy who was in the custody of the police. Fortunately, the child had escaped injury although he was visibly shaken. After the assessment, paramedics handed the child over to his father, who was by this time on scene.”
Local authorities will be investigating this matter further.
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For more than 4 and a half years, Clinton Botha was a journalist at Roodepoort Record. His articles were regularly published in the Northside Chronicle now known as the Roodepoort Northsider. Clinton is also the editor of Randfontein Herald since July 2020. As a sports fanatic he wormed his way into various "beats - as the media would know it - and admits openly that his big love always have something to do with a scoreboard, crowds and usually a ball that hops.
